Reinforcement Learning Based Machine Asset Planning and Management Apparatuses, Processes and Systems

ABSTRACT

The Reinforcement Learning Based Machine Asset Planning and Management Apparatuses, Processes and Systems (“MRLAPM”) transforms machine learning training input, order optimization input, withdrawal policy optimization input datastructure/inputs via MRLAPM components into machine learning training output, order optimization output, withdrawal policy optimization output outputs. A machine learning training request datastructure structured to specify a set of agent profile datastructures and an agent sample ranking function is obtained. An agent samples range is determined. A set of inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) training sample datastructures is generated. An optimal reward function having a determined reward function structure is determined using an IRL technique on the set of IRL training sample datastructures. An optimal policy is determined using a reinforcement learning technique and the optimal reward function. An optimal policy datastructure structured to specify parameters that define the structure of the optimal policy is stored.

This application for letters patent disclosure document describesinventive aspects that include various novel innovations (hereinafter“disclosure”) and contains material that is subject to copyright, maskwork, and/or other intellectual property protection. The respectiveowners of such intellectual property have no objection to the facsimilereproduction of the disclosure by anyone as it appears in publishedPatent Office file/records, but otherwise reserve all rights.

PRIORITY CLAIM

Applicant hereby claims benefit to priority under 35 USC § 119 as anon-provisional conversion of: US provisional patent application Ser.No. 63/29 8,624, filed Jan. 11, 2022, entitled “Machine ReinforcementLearning Asset Planning and Management Apparatuses, Processes andSystems”, (attorney docket no. Fidelity0808PV).

The entire contents of the aforementioned applications are hereinexpressly incorporated by reference.

FIELD

The present innovations generally address machine learning and databasesystems, and more particularly, include Reinforcement Learning BasedMachine Asset Planning and Management Apparatuses, Processes andSystems.

However, in order to develop a reader's understanding of theinnovations, disclosures have been compiled into a single description toillustrate and clarify how aspects of these innovations operateindependently, interoperate as between individual innovations, and/orcooperate collectively. The application goes on to further describe theinterrelations and synergies as between the various innovations; all ofwhich is to further compliance with 35 U.S.C. § 112.

BACKGROUND

People own all types of assets, some of which are secured instruments tounderlying assets. People have used exchanges to facilitate trading andselling of such assets. Computer information systems, such as NAICO-NET,Trade*Plus and E*Trade allowed owners to trade securities assetselectronically.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Appendices and/or drawings illustrating various, non-limiting, example,innovative aspects of the Reinforcement Learning Based Machine AssetPlanning and Management Apparatuses, Processes and Systems (hereinafter“MRLAPM”) disclosure, include:

FIG. 1 shows non-limiting, example embodiments of an architecture forthe MRLAPM;

FIGS. 2A-B show non-limiting, example embodiments of a datagraphillustrating data flow(s) for the MRLAPM;

FIG. 3 shows non-limiting, example embodiments of a logic flowillustrating a machine learning training (MLT) component for the MRLAPM;

FIG. 4 shows non-limiting, example embodiments of a logic flowillustrating an optimized order executing (OOE) component for theMRLAPM;

FIG. 5 shows non-limiting, example embodiments of implementation case(s)for the MRLAPM;

FIG. 6 shows non-limiting, example embodiments of a screenshotillustrating user interface(s) of the MRLAPM;

FIG. 7 shows non-limiting, example embodiments of an architecture forthe MRLAPM;

FIG. 8 shows non-limiting, example embodiments of an architecture forthe MRLAPM;

FIGS. 9A-B show non-limiting, example embodiments of a datagraphillustrating data flow(s) for the MRLAPM;

FIG. 10 shows non-limiting, example embodiments of a logic flowillustrating a machine learning training (MLT) component for the MRLAPM;

FIG. 11 shows non-limiting, example embodiments of a logic flowillustrating an optimized withdrawal policy generating (OWPG) componentfor the MRLAPM;

FIG. 12 shows non-limiting, example embodiments of implementationcase(s) for the MRLAPM;

FIG. 13 shows non-limiting, example embodiments of a screenshotillustrating user interface(s) of the MRLAPM;

FIG. 14 shows a block diagram illustrating non-limiting, exampleembodiments of a MRLAPM controller.

Generally, the leading number of each citation number within thedrawings indicates the figure in which that citation number isintroduced and/or detailed. As such, a detailed discussion of citationnumber 101 would be found and/or introduced in FIG. 1 . Citation number201 is introduced in FIG. 2 , etc. Any citations and/or referencenumbers are not necessarily sequences but rather just example ordersthat may be rearranged and other orders are contemplated. Citationnumber suffixes may indicate that an earlier introduced item has beenre-referenced in the context of a later figure and may indicate the sameitem, evolved/modified version of the earlier introduced item, etc.,e.g., server 199 of FIG. 1 may be a similar server 299 of FIG. 2 in thesame and/or new context.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The Reinforcement Learning Based Machine Asset Planning and ManagementApparatuses, Processes and Systems (hereinafter “MRLAPM”) transformsmachine learning training input, order optimization input, withdrawalpolicy optimization input datastructure/inputs, via MRLAPM components(e.g., MLT, OOE, OWPG, etc. components), into machine learning trainingoutput, order optimization output, withdrawal policy optimization outputoutputs. The MRLAPM components, in various embodiments, implementadvantageous features as set forth below.

INTRODUCTION

The MRLAPM provides unconventional features (e.g., an optimizationmethod that utilizes an IRL technique and an RL technique in combinationto create a trade recommender tool/user interface, an optimizationmethod that utilizes an RL technique to create a withdrawal policyrecommender tool/user interface) that were never before available inmachine learning and database systems.

In one embodiment, the MRLAPM allows people to collaborate withartificial intelligence for better asset management. In one embodiment,MRLAPM provides an efficient mechanism to transform humans' knowledge tomachines, e.g., in one arena, this may help humans and machines producebetter investment portfolios, but these techniques may apply in manyother areas of human to machine intelligence transformations. Forexample, in one embodiment, the MRLAPM provides an approach that helpsimprove the mechanisms/processes of dynamic portfolio management byportfolio managers (PMs) by combining their stock picking skills with anoptimization method based on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The MRLAPMprovides mechanisms/processes of dynamic portfolio management by PMs,e.g., by providing to them a trade recommender tool/user interface. Inone example embodiment, the MRLAPM provides never before available and adifferent IRL algorithm called parametric T-REX, and a differentmechanism/method of portfolio aggregation based on, e.g., the industrialsector exposure of the portfolio. This produces a practically useful andefficient algorithm As such, MRLAPM may employ two algorithms that worktogether. First, MRLAPM may apply a particular version of the T-REXalgorithm to learn parameters of the reward function which determinesthe goals and preferences of a PM or a group of similar PMs. Secondly,this learned reward function may be passed to the second, RL algorithmcalled the G-Learner, that provides a recommendation to the PM to adjustthe portfolio by, e.g., keeping the stocks selected but re-adjustingtheir weights based on an optimal sector exposure according to theG-learner.

In another embodiment, MRLAPM addresses growing need, e.g., fromretirees to have better financial advice in the retirement. For example,investors/retirees may wish to keep more of what they earn; they wantlife and retirement decisions made as a household across accounts. Forsuch an instance, MRLAPM includes an AI driven mechanism to addressesthis problem with the following elements: (a) plan for retirementwithdrawals from multiple accounts (e.g., How much do retireeswithdrawal from each account annually in anegative-asset-value-force-optimized (e.g., damage, depreciation,destruction, taxes, etc.) way?); How long will the money last (planlength) or say how much money left after a certain plan period?); (b)make sense the withdrawals by taking into consideration of market returnchanges and different account negative-asset-value-forcetreatments/restrictions (e.g., required minimum distribution (RMD)); (c)satisfy varied customer need/lifestyle (e.g., bequest, variedafter-negative-asset-value-force minimum annual withdrawals, longevity,etc.). In one embodiment, the MRLAPM facilitates delivery of aninvestment solution built from Voice of Our Customer. It also improvesquality of personalized planning recommendations about clients'financial goal. And it also may automate the advisory process alongclients' financial journey. In one embodiment, MRLAPM includes a firstreinforcement learning based negative-asset-value-force efficientwithdrawal optimization mechanism (e.g., model, with the integration ofall necessary regulatory rules), financial market changes as well asflexible clients financial goals. As such, MRLAPM provides the firstretirement planning advisory system that has discretion to move moneybetween accounts and allow clients to share forward looking market viewsin the plan. As such, MRLAPM includes some never before availablefeatures including: (a) formulated the retirement planning problem in aRL framework by modeling financial market as environment, retirementaccount withdrawal location as agent, and regulatory rules,negative-asset-value-force cost, clients' level of satisfaction asrewards; (b) provides intermediate rewards and terminal rewards to modelmultiple financial goals of clients; (c) designs financial marketscenarios to model future market changes and allow clients' inputs oftheir views; and (d) implemented the RL-based system through paralleledcomputing.

MRLAPM

FIG. 1 shows non-limiting, example embodiments of an architecture forthe MRLAPM. In FIG. 1 , an embodiment of how a set of inputdatastructures and an AI module may be utilized to generate a predictionlogic output datastructure is illustrated. In one implementation, theset of input datastructures may include fund trading profiles (e.g.,holdings, trades, cashflow) for a set of funds (e.g., which utilize thesame fund benchmark, such as the S&P 500 index), a ranking logic thatranks fund performance (e.g., fund return, Sharpe ratio, Sortino ratio),expected sector returns (e.g., for the 11 S&P 500 sectors), fundbenchmark (e.g., S&P 500 index, Russell 3000 index) returns, and/or thelike. In one implementation, the AI module may include a first componentthat utilizes an inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) technique (e.g.,T-REX) for learning a reward function, and a second component thatutilizes a reinforcement learning (RL) technique (e.g., G-Learner) andthe learned reward function for learning an optimal policy that providessector trading recommendations. In one implementation, the predictionlogic output datastructure may store the learned optimal policy and maybe used to recommend trades for sectors (e.g., in dollar amounts).

FIGS. 2A-B show non-limiting, example embodiments of a datagraphillustrating data flow(s) for the MRLAPM. In FIGS. 2A-B, a client 202(e.g., of a user) may send a machine learning (ML) training input 221 toa ML training server 204 to facilitate training a prediction logic usinga machine learning technique. For example, the client may be a desktop,a laptop, a tablet, a smartphone, a smartwatch, and/or the like that isexecuting a client application. In one implementation, the ML traininginput may include data such as a request identifier, IRL techniquedetails, RL technique details, configuration parameters for the MLtechniques, a set of agent profile datastructures, an agent sampleranking function, buckets, expected bucket (e.g., sector) returns, abenchmark, and/or the like. In one embodiment, the client may providethe following example ML training input, substantially in the form of a(Secure) Hypertext Transfer Protocol (“HTTP(S)”) POST message includingeXtensible Markup Language (“XML”) formatted data, as provided below:

POST /authrequest.php HTTP/1.1 Host: www.server.com Content-Type:Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XML version = “1.0” encoding =“UTF-8”?> <auth_request>  <timestamp>2020-12-31 23:59:59</timestamp> <user_accounts_details>    <user_account_credentials>     <user_name>JohnDaDoeDoeDoooe@gmail. com</user_name>     <password>abc123</password>      //OPTIONAL<cookie>cookieID</cookie>      //OPTIONAL <digital_cert_link>www.mydigitalcertificate. com/JohnDoeDaDoeDoe@gmail.com/mycertifcate.dc</digital_cert_link>     //OPTIONAL <digital_certificate>_DATA_</digital_certificate>   </user_account_credentials>  </user_accounts_details> <client_details> //iOS Client with App and Webkit      //it should benoted that although several client details      //sections are providedto show example variants of client      //sources, further messages willinclude only on to save      //space   <client_IP>10.0.0.123</client_IP>    <user_agent_string>Mozilla/5.0(iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_1_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.2 (KHTML,like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11D201 Safari/9537.53</user_agent_string>   <client_product_type>iPhone6jl</client_product_type>   <client_serial_number>DNXXXlXlXXXX</client_serial_number>   <client_UDID>3XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXD</client_UDID>   <client_OS>iOS</client_OS>   <client_OS_version>7.1.1</client_OS_version>    <client_app_type>appwith webkit</client_app_type>   <app_installed_flag>true</app_installed_flag>   <app_name>MRLAPM.app</app_name>    <app_version>1.0 </app_version>   <app_webkit_name>Mobile Safari</client_webkit_name>   <client_version>537.51.2</client_version>  </client_details> <client_details> //iOS Client with Webbrowser   <client_IP>10.0.0.123</client_IP>    <user_agent_string>Mozilla/5.0(iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_1_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.2 (KHTML,like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11D201 Safari/9537.53</user_agent_string>   <client_product_type>iPhone6jl</client_product_type>   <client_serial_number>DNXXX1X1XXXX</client_serial_number>   <client_UDID>3XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXD</client_UDID>   <client_OS>iOS</client_OS>   <client_OS_version>7.1.l</client_OS_version>    <client_app_type>webbrowser</client_app_type>    <client_name>Mobile Safari</client_name>   <client_version>9537.53</client_version>  </client_details> <client_details> //Android Client with Webbrowser   <client_IP>10.0.0.123</client_IP>    <user_agent_string>Mozilla/5.0(Linux; U; Android 4.0.4; en-us; Nexus S Build/IMM76D)AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 MobileSafari/534.30</user_agent_string>    <client_product_type>NexusS</client_product_type>   <client_serial_number>YXXXXXXXXZ</client_serial_number>   <client_UDID>FXXXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXXX</client_UDID>   <client_OS>Android</client_OS>   <client_OS_version>4.0.4</client_OS_version>    <client_app_type>webbrowser</client_app_type>    <client_name>Mobile Safari</client_name>   <client_version>534.30</client_version>  </client_details> <client_details> //Mac Desktop with Webbrowser   <client_IP>10.0.0.123</client_IP>    <user_agent_string>Mozilla/5.0(Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_3) AppleWebKit/537.75.14 (KHTML, likeGecko) Version/7.0.3 Safari/537.75.14</user_agent_string>   <client_product_type>MacPro5jl</client_product_type>   <client_serial_number>YXXXXXXXXZ</client_serial_number>   <client_UDID>FXXXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXXX</client_UDID>   <client_OS>Mac OS X</client_OS>   <client_OS_version>10.9.3</client_OS_version>    <client_app_type>webbrowser</client_app_type>    <client_name>Mobile Safari</client_name>   <client_version>537.75.14</client_version>  </client_details>  <machine_learning_training_input>  <request_identifier>ID_request_l</request_identifier>  <IRL_technique_identifier>ID_T-REX</IRL_technique_identifier>  <RL_technique_identifier>ID_G-Learner</RL_technique_identifier>  <agent_profiles>    <agent_profile>    <fund_alias>ID_fund_l</fund_alias>     <fund_data>     ^(<)year_month>2017-08</year_month>      <sector CommunicationServices</sector>      <holdings>1.111e+08</holdings>     <trades>-7974684.75</trades>      <cashflow>-6682420.5</cashflow>    </fund_data>     <fund_data>      <year_month>2017-08</year_month>     <sector>Consumer Discretionary</sector>     <holdings>3.449e+07</holdings>      <trades>2333109.1</trades>     <cashflow>-6682420.5</cashflow>     </fund_data>     <fund_data>     <year_month>2017-08</year_month>      <sector >Industrials</sector>     . . .     </fund_data>     <fund_data>     <year_month>2017-08</year_month>      <sector>InformationTechnology</sector>      . . .     </fund_data>     . . .    <fund_data>      <year_month>2019-12</year_month>      <sectorCommunication Services</sector>      <holdings>1.222e+08</holdings>     <trades>-6864684.75</trades>      <cashflow>-5572420.5</cashflow>    </fund_data>     <fund_data>      <year_month>2019-12</year_month>     <sector>Consumer Discretionary</sector>     <holdings>2.338e+07</holdings>      <trades>1223109.1</trades>     <cashflow>-5572420.5</cashflow>     </fund_data>     <fund_data>     <year_month>2019-12</year_month>      <sector>Industrials</sector>     . . .     </fund_data>     <fund_data>     ^(<)year_month>2019-12</year_month>      <sector>InformationTechnology</sector>      . . .     </fund_data>      . . .   </agent_profile>    . . .    <agent_profile>    <fund_alias>ID_fund_4</fund_alias>     <fund_data>     <year_month>2017-08</year_month>      <sector CommunicationServices</sector>      . . .     </fund_data>     <fund_data>     <year_month>2017-08</year_month>      <sector>ConsumerDiscretionary</sector>      . . .     </fund_data>     <fund_data>     <year_month>2017-08</year_month>      <sector>Industrials</sector>     . . .      <holdings>3.381e+08</holdings>     <trades>1656227.8</trades>      <cashflow>-40588208</cashflow>    </fund_data>     <fund_data>      <year_month>2017-08</year_month>     <sector>Information Technology</sector>     <holdings>1.956e+08</holdings>      <trades>-2428437.5</trades>     <cashflow>-40588208</cashflow>     </fund_data>     . . .    <fund_data>      <year_month>2019-12</year_month>      <sectorCommunication Services</sector>     </fund_data>     <fund_data>     <year_month>2019-12</year_month>      <sector>ConsumerDiscretionary</sector>     </fund_data>     <fund_data>     <year_month>2019-12</year_month>      <sector>Industrials</sector>     <holdings>4.492e+08</holdings>      <trades>2766227.8</trades>     <cashflow>-51688208</cashflow>     </fund_data>     <fund_data>     <year_month>2019-12</year_month>      <sector>InformationTechnology</sector>      <holdings>2.067e+08</holdings>     <trades>-3538437.5</trades>      <cashflow>-51688208</cashflow>    </fund_data>       . . .      </agent_profile>      . . .  </agent_profiles>  <agent_sample_ranking_function>FUND_RETURN</agent_sample_ranking_function>  < buckets >SP500_SECTORS</buckets>  <expected_sector_returns>DEFAULT_SP500_SECTOR_RETURNS</expected_sector_returns>  <benchmark>SP500</benchmark>  </machine_learning_training_input></auth_request>

A machine learning training (MLT) component 225 may utilize dataprovided in the ML training input to train a prediction logic thatprovides trading recommendations. See FIG. 3 for additional detailsregarding the MLT component.

The ML training server 204 may send a prediction logic store request 229to a ML repository 210 to store the trained prediction logic. In oneimplementation, the prediction logic store request may include data suchas a request identifier, a request type, a prediction logic identifier,prediction logic trained structure, and/or the like. In one embodiment,the ML training server may provide the following example predictionlogic store request, substantially in the form of a HTTP(S) POST messageincluding XML-formatted data, as provided below:

POST /prediction_logic_store_request.php HTTP/1.1 Host: www.server.comContent-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XML version = “1.0”encoding = “UTF-8”?> <prediction_logic_store_request> <request_identifier>ID_request_2</request_identifier> <request_type>STORE</request_type> <prediction_logic_identifier>ID_prediction_logic_1</prediction_logic_identifier> <prediction_logic_trained_structure>   optimaL poLicy π datastructure </prediction_logic_trained_structure> </prediction_logic_store_request>

The ML repository 210 may send a prediction logic store response 233 tothe ML training server 204 to confirm that the trained prediction logicwas stored successfully. In one implementation, the prediction logicstore response may include data such as a response identifier, a status,and/or the like. In one embodiment, the ML repository may provide thefollowing example prediction logic store response, substantially in theform of a HTTP(S) POST message including XML-formatted data, as providedbelow:

POST /prediction_logic_store_response.php HTTP/1.1 Host: www.server.comContent-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XML version = “1.0”encoding = “UTF-8”?> <prediction_logic_store_response> <response_identifier>ID_response_2</response_identifier> <status>OK</status> </prediction_logic_store_response>

The ML training server 204 may send a machine learning training output237 to the client 202 to inform the user that training was completedsuccessfully. In one implementation, the machine learning trainingoutput may include data such as a response identifier, a status, and/orthe like. In one embodiment, the ML training server may provide thefollowing example machine learning training output, substantially in theform of a HTTP(S) POST message including XML-formatted data, as providedbelow:

POST /machine_learning_training_output.php HTTP/1.1 Host: www.server.comContent-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XML version = “1.0”encoding = “UTF-8”?> <machine_learning_training_output> <response_identifier>ID_response_1</response_identifier> <status>OK</status> </machine_learning_training_output>

The client 202 (e.g., the same client of the user who initiated thetraining of the prediction logic, a different client of a different userwho utilizes the trained prediction logic) may send an orderoptimization input 241 to a MRLAPM server 206 to facilitate placing anorder with optimal order parameters. In one implementation, the orderoptimization input may include data such as a request identifier, aprediction logic identifier, an order constraint value, holdings for aset of buckets, and/or the like. In one embodiment, the client mayprovide the following example order optimization input, substantially inthe form of a HTTP(S) POST message including XML-formatted data, asprovided below:

POST /order_optimization_input.php HTTP/1.1 Host: www.server.comContent-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XML version = “1.0”encoding = “UTF-8”?> <order_optimization_input> <request_identifier>ID_request_3</request_identifier> <prediction_logic_identifier>ID_prediction_logic_1</prediction_logic_identifier> <cashflow>−6682420.5</cashflow>  <buckets>   <bucket>   <sector>Communication Services</sector>   <holdings>1.111e+08</holdings>   </bucket>   <bucket>   <sector>Consumer Discretionary</sector>   <holdings>3.449e+07</holdings>   </bucket>   ...  </buckets></order_optimization_input>

The MRLAPM server 206 may send a prediction logic retrieve request 245to the ML repository 210 to retrieve a trained prediction logic. In oneimplementation, the prediction logic retrieve request may include datasuch as a request identifier, a request type, a prediction logicidentifier, and/or the like. In one embodiment, the MRLAPM server mayprovide the following example prediction logic retrieve request,substantially in the form of a HTTP(S) POST message includingXML-formatted data, as provided below:

POST /prediction_logic_retrieve_request.php HTTP/1.1 Host:www.server.com Content-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XMLversion = “1.0” encoding = “UTF-8”?> <prediction_logic_retrieve_request> <request_identifier>ID_request_4</request_identifier> <request_type>RETRIEVE</request_type> <prediction_logic_identifier>ID_prediction_logic_1</prediction_logic_identifier></prediction_logic_retrieve_request>

The ML repository 210 may send a prediction logic retrieve response 249to the MRLAPM server 206 with the requested trained prediction logic. Inone implementation, the prediction logic retrieve response may includedata such as a response identifier, the requested prediction logictrained structure, and/or the like. In one embodiment, the ML repositorymay provide the following example prediction logic retrieve response,substantially in the form of a HTTP(S) POST message includingXML-formatted data, as provided below:

POST /prediction_logic_retrieve_response.php HTTP/1.1 Host:www.server.com Content-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XMLversion = “1.0” encoding = “UTF-8”?><prediction_logic_retrieve_response> <response_identifier>ID_response_4</response_identifier> <prediction_logic_trained_structure>   optimaL poLicy π datastructure </prediction_logic_trained_structure></prediction_logic_retrieve_response>

An optimized order executing (OOE) component 253 may utilize theretrieved prediction logic to compute optimal order parameters and/or toplace an order with the optimal order parameters. See FIG. 4 foradditional details regarding the OOE component.

The MRLAPM server 206 may send an order placement request 257 to anexchange server 208 to facilitate placing the order with the optimalorder parameters. For example, one or more order placement requests maybe sent (e.g., over time) to one or more exchange servers (e.g., for oneor more venues) in accordance with the optimal order parameters. In oneimplementation, the order placement request may include data such as arequest identifier, order details, and/or the like. In one embodiment,the MRLAPM server may provide the following example order placementrequest, substantially in the form of a HTTP(S) POST message includingXML-formatted data, as provided below:

POST /order_placement_request.php HTTP/1.1 Host: www.server.comContent-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XML version = “1.0”encoding = “UTF-8”?> <order_placement_request> <request_identifier>ID_request_5</request_identifier>  <order_details>  <action>BUY</action>   < sector>Communication Services</sector>  <quantity>8.625133e+06</quantity>  </order_details>  <order_details>  <action>BUY</action>   <sector>Consumer Discretionary</sector>  <quantity>3.409290e+06</quantity>  </order_details>  <order_details>  <action>SELL</action>   <sector>Consumer Staples</sector>  <quantity>5.921431e+06</quantity>  </order_details>  ...</order_placement_request>

The exchange server 208 may send an order placement response 261 to theMRLAPM server 206 to confirm that the order was placed successfully. Inone implementation, the order placement response may include data suchas a response identifier, a status, and/or the like. In one embodiment,the exchange server may provide the following example order placementresponse, substantially in the form of a HTTP(S) POST message includingXML-formatted data, as provided below:

POST /order_placement_response.php HTTP/1.1 Host: www.server.comContent-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XML version = “1.0”encoding = “UTF-8”?> <order_placement_response> <response_identifier>ID_response_5</response_identifier> <status>OK</status> </order_placement_response>

The MRLAPM server 206 may send an order optimization output 265 to theclient 202 to inform the user that the order was placed successfully. Inone implementation, the order optimization output may include data suchas a response identifier, a status, and/or the like. In one embodiment,the MRLAPM server may provide the following example order optimizationoutput, substantially in the form of a HTTP(S) POST message includingXML-formatted data, as provided below:

POST /order_optimization_output.php HTTP/1.1 Host: www.server.comContent-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XML version = “1.0”encoding = “UTF-8”?> <order_optimization_output> <response_identifier>ID_response_3</response_identifier> <status>OK</status> </order_optimization_output>

FIG. 3 shows non-limiting, example embodiments of a logic flowillustrating a machine learning training (MLT) component for the MRLAPM.In FIG. 3 , a machine learning (NIL) training request may be obtained at301. For example, the ML training request may be obtained as a result ofa user initiating training of a prediction logic that provides tradingrecommendations.

A set of buckets to utilize may be determined at 305. For example,buckets may correspond to the 11 sectors of the S&P 500 index thatcorrespond to the following indexes:

  [‘SP500CD’, ‘Consumer Discretionary’], [‘SP500CS’, ‘ConsumerStaples’], [‘SP500EN’, ‘Energy’], [‘SP500FN’, ‘Financials’], [‘SP500IN’,‘Industrials’], [‘SP500IT’, ‘Information Technology’], [‘SP500MT’,‘Materials’], [‘SP500RE’, ‘Real Estate’], [‘SP500TC’, ‘CommunicationServices’], [‘SP500UT’, ‘Utilities’], [‘SP500HC’, ‘Health Care’]In one implementation, the ML training request may be parsed (e.g.,using PHP commands) to determine the set of buckets to use (e.g., basedon the value of the buckets field).

Expected returns for the set of buckets may be determined at 309. In oneembodiment, the expected returns for the set of buckets may bedetermined using a pre-trained (e.g., autoregression) structure. Forexample, an autoregressive moving average (ARMA) model may be utilizedto compute default values of the expected sector returns r_(t) and theregression residue may then be used to estimate the sector returncovariance matrix Σ_(r). In another embodiment, the expected returns forthe set of buckets may be user-defined. For example, the user mayprovide estimated expected sector returns. In one implementation, the MLtraining request may be parsed (e.g., using PHP commands) to determinethe expected returns for the set of buckets (e.g., based on the value ofthe expected_sector_returns field).

Benchmark portfolio returns may be determined at 313. For example, abenchmark portfolio may be S&P 500, Russell 3000, and/or the like. Inone embodiment, the benchmark portfolio returns may be determined for acertain training period (e.g., 2 years, from January 2017 to December2018). In one implementation, the ML training request may be parsed(e.g., using PHP commands) to determine the benchmark portfolio (e.g.,based on the value of the benchmark field), and the returns for thebenchmark portfolio may be determined (e.g., from publically availabledata).

A set of agent profile datastructures may be determined at 317. Forexample, an agent profile datastructure of an agent may correspond to afund trading profile of a fund and may include the agent's (e.g., thefund's) monthly holdings, trades and cashflow data at sector level(e.g., training data (e.g., 2 years, from January 2017 to December 2018)and/or testing data (e.g., 1 year, from January 2019 to December 2019)).In one embodiment, the set of agent profile datastructures maycorrespond to a set of funds that utilize the benchmark portfolio astheir performance benchmark. In one implementation, the ML trainingrequest may be parsed (e.g., using PHP commands) to determine the set ofagent profile datastructures (e.g., based on the value of theagent_profiles field). See FIG. 5 , screen 501 for another example of aset of agent profile datastructures. In some implementations, fundtrading data in the fund trading profiles may be pre-processed asfollows:

At the starting time step, each fund’s total net asset value is assignedto its corresponding benchmark value (i.e., B_(t=0)) in order to aligntheir size and use the actual benchmark return at each time step tocalculate their values afterwards (i.e., t > 0). These time series datain dollar amounts (i.e., {x_(t), u_(t), B_(t), C_(t)}_(t=0) ^(T)) arethen normalized by dividing its initial value at t = 0.

An agent sample ranking function to utilize may be determined at 321.For example, an agent sample ranking function may be fund return, Sharperatio, Sortino ratio, and/or the like. In one embodiment, a fund tradingprofile of a fund specified via an agent profile datastructure may beutilized to rank the fund's performance during a certain training period(e.g., 2 years, from January 2017 to December 2018) by calculating thefund's return based on the difference between the end and starting totalnet assets excluding the cashflow amount (e.g., for fund return), and,for some agent sample ranking functions, by dividing the fund's returnby the standard deviation of returns over the time period (e.g., forSharpe ratio) or by dividing the fund's return by the standard deviationof negative returns over the time period (e.g., for Sortino ratio). Inone implementation, the ML training request may be parsed (e.g., usingPHP commands) to determine the agent sample ranking function to utilize(e.g., based on the value of the agent_sample_ranking_function field).

A range of agent samples to use may be determined at 325. In oneembodiment, the range of agent samples to use may comprise some numberof subsequences (e.g., 3 subsequences) of fund data of a certain length(e.g., from 5 to 10 months) from the set of agent profiledatastructures. In various implementations, the number of subsequences,the length of each subsequence, the date range of each subsequence,and/or the like may be selected (e.g., predefined, randomly, withinprespecified allowable ranges, and/or the like) to determine the rangeof agent samples to use. For example, the following subsequences may beused:

Subsequences subsequence_0 ranges from 2017-01 to 2017-08 subsequence_1ranges from 2017-06 to 2017-12 subsequence_2 ranges from 2017-08 to2018-05It is to be understood that, in various implementations, subsequencesmay be structured to have the same or different lengths, to beoverlapping or disjoint, and/or the like.

A set of inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) training sampledatastructures may be generated at 329. In one embodiment, an IRLtraining sample datastructure may comprise a pairwise comparison ofrankings (e.g., as determined using the agent sample ranking function)of a pair of agents during a subsequence. For example, if agent_0 (e.g.,with fund alias ID_fund_0) is ranked higher (e.g., based on fund return)during subsequence_0 than agent_1 (e.g., with fund alias ID_fund_1),then the following IRL training sample datastructure may be generated:

X: Y: [agent_0_subsequence_0, agent_1_subsequence_0] 0 in which X is atuple comprising two agent-subsequence identifiers, and Y is binaryvalue such that Y = 0 if the first element in tuple X is ranked higher,and Y = 1 if the second element in tuple X is ranked higherIn one implementation, each agent's rank during a subsequence may becompared with each of the other agents' ranks during the subsequence,for each of the subsequences, to determine the pairwise agent rankingorder used to generate the set of IRL training sample datastructures.For example, the following set of IRL training sample datastructures maybe generated for 3 agents and 3 subsequences:

X: Y: [agent_0_subsequence_0, agent_1_subsequence_0] 0 (e.g., agent_0 >agent_1) [agent_0_subsequence_0, agent_2_subsequence_0] 0 (e.g.,agent_0 > agent_2) [agent_1_subsequence_0, agent_2_subsequence_0] 1(e.g., agent_1 < agent_2) [agent_0_subsequence_1, agent_1_subsequence_1]0 [agent_0_subsequence_1, agent_2_subsequence_1] 0[agent_1_subsequence_1, agent_2_subsequence_1] 1 [agent_0_subsequence_2,agent_1_subsequence_2] 0 [agent_0_subsequence_2, agent_2_subsequence_2]0 [agent_1_subsequence_2, agent_2_subsequence_2] 1In some alternative implementations, instead of using ranks duringsubsequences, ranks during the entire training period (e.g., 2 years)may be used to make pairwise comparisons of rankings (e.g.,agent_0>agent_2>agent_1 for each subsequence).

A reward function structure to use for inverse reinforcement learningmay be determined at 333. In one embodiment, a parametric rewardfunction may be used. In one implementation, a parametric T-REX functionmay be used. For example, the reward function structure to use for IRLmay be specified as follows:

Let O : {S, A} be a state-action space of a Markov decision process(MDP) environment, and {circumflex over (r)}₀(·) with parameters 0 be atarget reward function to be optimized in the IRL problem. Let the statevector x_(t) ∈ R^(N) be a vector of dollar values of stock positions ineach sector at time t. Let the action variable u_(t) ∈ R^(N) be given bythe vector of changes in these positions as a result of trading at timestep t. Let the state vector r_(t) ∈ R^(N) represent the asset returnsas a random variable with the mean r _(t) and covariance matrix Σ_(r).Let the state transition model be defined as follows: x_(t+1) =A_(t)(x_(t) + u_(t)), A_(t) = diag(1 + r_(t)) The reward function R_(t)is structured as follows: R_(t)(x_(t), u_(t)|0) = −

) [({circumflex over (P)}_(t) − V_(t))²] − λ · (1^(T)u_(t) − C_(t))² − ω· u_(t) ^(T)u_(t) where C_(t) is a money flow to the fund, λ and ω areparameters, and {circumflex over (P)}_(t) = ρ · B_(t) + (1 − ρ) · η ·1^(T)x_(t) V_(t) = (1 + r_(t))^(T)(x_(t) + u_(t)) where η and ρ areadditional parameters, and B_(t) is a benchmark portfolio The rewardfunctions has three terms. In the first term, {circumflex over (P)}_(t)defines the target portfolio market value at time t. It is specified asa linear combination of a reference benchmark portfolio value B_(t) andthe current portfolio’s self-growing value with rate η, where ρ ∈ [0, 1]is a parameter defining the relative weight between the two terms. V_(t)gives the portfolio value at time t + Δt, after the trade u_(t) is madeat time t. The first term imposes a penalty for under-performance of thetraded portfolio relative to its moving target. The second term enforcesthe constraint that the total amount of trades in the portfolio shouldmatch the inflow C_(t) to the portfolio at each time step, with λ beinga parameter penalizing violations of the equality constraint. The thirdterm approximates transaction costs by a quadratic function withparameter ω, thus serving as a L₂ regularization, The vector 0 of modelparameters thus contains four reward parameters {ρ, η, λ, ω}.

An IRL technique may be used on the set of IRL training sampledatastructures to determine an optimal reward function at 337. Forexample, the T-REX IRL technique may be used (e.g., specified via the MLtraining request (e.g., based on the value of theIRL_technique_identifier field)). In one embodiment, the IRL techniquemay be used to infer the intent of asset managers from observing theirtrading decisions (e.g., rather than to imitate investment policies ofasset managers) to improve over their investment decisions. In oneimplementation, the T-REX technique may be used to solve a binaryclassification problem to learn parameters (e.g., the four parameters{ρ, η, λ, w}) of the optimal reward function that keep the pairwiseagent ranking order that is based on the agent sample ranking function.For example, the T-REX technique may be used as follows:

Let 0 : {S, A} be a state-action space of an MDP environment, and{circumflex over (r)}_(θ)(·) with parameters θ be a target rewardfunction to be optimized in the IRL problem. Given M ranked observedsubsequences {o_(m)}_(m=1) ^(M) (o_(i)

  o_(j) if i < j, where ″

 ″ indicates the pairwise agent ranking order between pairwisesubsequences), the T-REX technique may be used to conduct rewardinference by solving the following optimization problem:$\max\limits_{\theta}{\sum\limits_{o_{i} \prec o_{j}}{\log\frac{e^{\sum\limits_{{\{{s,a}\}}{\epsilon o}_{j}}{{\hat{r}}_{\theta}({s,a})}}}{e^{\sum\limits_{{\{{s,a}\}}{\epsilon o}_{i}}{{\hat{r}}_{\theta}({s,a})}} + e^{\sum\limits_{{\{{s,a}\}}{\epsilon o}_{j}}{{\hat{r}}_{\theta}({s,a})}}}}}$This objective function is equivalent to the softmax normalized cross-entropy loss in a binary classifier, and may be trained using machinelearning libraries such as PyTorch or TensorFlow. As a result, thelearned optimal reward function can preserve theranking orders betweenpairs of subsequences.

A prior policy π⁽⁰⁾ may be determined at 341. In one embodiment, theprior policy π⁽⁰⁾ may encode domain knowledge of real world problems. Inone implementation, the prior policy π⁽⁰⁾ is fitted to a multivariateGaussian distribution with a constant mean and variance calculated fromsector trades in the training set (e.g., pre-processed fund tradingdata).

Hyperparameters for a reinforcement learning technique (e.g., G-Learner)may be determined at 345. For example, default values of hyperparametersmay be used (e.g., previously tuned values). In another example, valuesof hyperparameters may be specified via the ML training request. In oneembodiment, hyperparameters may be used to control the training In oneimplementation, the hyperparameters may include a discount factor γ forthe future value of rewards. In another implementation, thehyperparameters may include a KL, regularizer magnitude β. G-learnercontrols the deviation of the optimal policy π_(t) from the prior policyπ⁽⁰⁾ by incorporating the KL, divergence of π_(t) and π⁽⁰⁾ into theoptimal reward function (e.g., a modified, regularized reward function)with a hyperparameter β that controls the magnitude of the KL,regularizer. When β is large, the deviation can be arbitrarily large,while in the limit β→0, π_(t) is forced to be equal to π⁽⁰⁾, so there isno learning in this limit

A set of reinforcement learning (RL) training sample datastructures maybe generated at 349. In one embodiment, an RL training sampledatastructure may comprise training data (e.g., pre-processed fundtrading data) for an agent (e.g., a fund) for the duration of thetraining period (e.g., 2 years, from January 2017 to December 2018) as atime series. In one implementation, the agents' agent profiledatastructures may be processed (e.g., parsed) to generate the set of RLtraining sample datastructures. In some implementations, the set of RLtraining sample datastructures may be used to estimate the sector returncovariance matrix Σ_(r).

A determination may be made at 353 whether an optimal policy waslearned. In one implementation, the optimal policy is learned whenparameters of the optimal policy converge (e.g., based on a predefineddifference threshold).

If the optimal policy was not learned yet, an RL technique may be usedon the set of RL training samples to learn the optimal policy at 357.For example, the G-Learner RL technique may be used (e.g., specified viathe ML training request (e.g., based on the value of theRL_technique_identifier field)). In one implementation, the G-Learnertechnique may be used to learn parameters (e.g., the three parametersũ_(t), {tilde over (v)}_(t), {tilde over (Σ)}_(p)) of the optimalpolicy. For example, the G-Learner technique may be used as follows:

Let F_(t) be the value function of x_(t). Let G_(t) be the action-valuefunction of x_(t) and u_(t) pairs. To obtain the optimal policy modelparameters at the terminal state (i.e., F_(T)* and G_(T)*)${{{{let}\frac{\partial{R_{t}\left( {x_{t},u_{t}} \right)}}{\partial u_{t}}}❘}_{t = T} = {0.{Thereafter}}},{{the}{policy}{model}{parameters}}$associated with earlier time steps can be derived in a backpropagatedway starting from the end step as shown in the for-loop of the functionbelow: G-Learner Optimization Function Input: λ, ω, η, ρ, β ,γ, {r _(t),x_(t), u_(t), B_(t), C_(t)}_(t=0) ^(T), Σ_(r), π⁽⁰⁾ Output: π_(T) ^(*) =π⁽⁰⁾ · e^(β(G) ^(T) ^(*) ^(−F) ^(T) ^(*) ⁾, t = 0, . . . , T Initialize:F_(T) ^(*), G_(T) ^(*) while not converge do  for t ∈ [T − 1, −1, 0] do  F_(t) ← Value_Update(F_(t−1), G_(t−1))   G_(t) ←ValueAction_Update(F_(t), G_(t−1))  end end return {F_(T) ^(*), G_(T)^(*)}_(t = 0) ^(T)

If the optimal policy was learned, an optimal policy datastructure maybe stored at 361. In one implementation, the optimal policydatastructure may comprise the parameters (e.g., the three parametersũ_(t), {tilde over (v)}_(t), {tilde over (Σ)}_(p)) of the optimal policyand may define the prediction logic. In one embodiment, the threeparameters ũ_(t), {tilde over (v)}_(t), {tilde over (Σ)}_(p) are timedependent and define the Gaussian distribution of the learned policyπ_(t) for each time step. For example, the optimal policy datastructure(e.g., prediction logic structure that defines the prediction logic) maybe stored in the ML table 1419 j.

FIG. 4 shows non-limiting, example embodiments of a logic flowillustrating an optimized order executing (OOE) component for theMRLAPM. In FIG. 4 , an order optimization datastructure may be obtainedat 401. For example, the order optimization datastructure may beobtained as a result of a user sending an order optimization input tofacilitate placing an order with optimal order parameters. See FIG. 5 ,screen 505 for another example of an order optimization datastructurethat may be provided.

An order constraint value may be determined at 405. For example, theorder constraint value may be a cashflow value associated with a fund(e.g., deposits and/or withdrawals for the fund). In one embodiment, theorder constraint value puts a constraint on the total recommended trades(e.g., SUM(recommended_trades)=cashflow). See FIG. 5 , screen 510 for anexample of recommended trades and an associated cashflow value. In oneimplementation, the order optimization datastructure may be parsed(e.g., using PHP commands) to determine the order constraint value(e.g., based on the value of the cashflow field).

A set of buckets to use may be determined at 409. For example, bucketsmay correspond to the 11 sectors of the S&P 500 index. In oneimplementation, the order optimization datastructure may be parsed(e.g., using PHP commands) to determine the set of buckets to use (e.g.,based on the value of the buckets field).

A determination may be made at 413 whether there remain buckets toprocess. In one implementation, each of the buckets in the set ofbuckets to use may be processed. If there remain buckets to process, thenext bucket may be selected for processing at 417.

Holdings for the selected bucket may be determined at 421. For example,holdings for a bucket may specify the current value (e.g., in dollars)of security positions (e.g., stocks) in the bucket for the fund. In oneimplementation, the order optimization datastructure may be parsed(e.g., using PHP commands) to determine the holdings for the selectedbucket (e.g., based on the value of the holdings field).

An optimal policy datastructure may be retrieved at 425. In oneembodiment, the optimal policy datastructure may comprise data fieldsthat specify the structure of a prediction logic that corresponds to anoptimal policy π that provides trading recommendations. In oneimplementation, the order optimization datastructure may be parsed(e.g., using PHP commands) to determine the optimal policy datastructurespecified by the user (e.g., based on the value of theprediction_logic_identifier field) and/or the specified optimal policydatastructure may be retrieved from a repository. In anotherimplementation, a default optimal policy datastructure (e.g., for thefund) may be retrieved from a repository.

Optimal order parameters may be computed using the optimal policydatastructure at 429. In one embodiment, the optimal order parametersmay specify a set of recommended trades to place based on the currentholdings and the order constraint value. In one implementation, thecurrent sector holdings and the cashflow value for the fund may beprovided as input to the retrieved prediction logic, and the retrievedprediction logic may provide a set of recommended trades as output. Forexample, the recommended action at time t may be given by the mode ofthe action policy for the given state x_(t) (e.g., generate K samples(e.g., the best value of K may be tuned based on empirical studiesand/or the system computation capacity) of u_(t) by simulating using theoptimal policy datastructure, and choose the u_(t) with the highestreward). See FIG. 5 , screen 510 for an example of recommended trades.In some implementations, computation of the optimal order parameters mayalso involve checking the feasibility of recommended allocations,controlling for potential market impact effects and/or transaction costs(e.g., by selecting a venue (e.g., stock exchange, dark pool) with theleast market impact and/or the lowest transaction costs), and/or thelike.

One or more order placement request datastructures may be sent to one ormore exchange servers at 433. In one implementation, the one or moreorder placement requests may be sent in accordance with the computedoptimal order parameters.

FIG. 5 shows non-limiting, example embodiments of implementation case(s)for the MRLAPM. Screen 501 illustrates a datastructure that may beprovided as input to train a prediction logic, which specifies monthlyfund holdings, trade, and cashflow data (e.g., in dollar amounts atmonth end from January 2017 to December 2019) at sector level for a setof funds that are benchmarked by S&P 500.

Screen 505 illustrates a datastructure that may be provided as input tothe trained prediction logic, which specifies a cashflow value andcurrent sector holdings for a fund. Screen 510 illustrates adatastructure that may be provided as output from the trained predictionlogic, which specifies recommended trades for the fund.

FIG. 6 shows non-limiting, example embodiments of a screenshotillustrating user interface(s) of the MRLAPM. In FIG. 6 , an exemplaryuser interface (e.g., for a mobile device, for a website) for training aprediction logic and/or placing an order with optimal order parametersis illustrated. Screen 601 shows that a user may specify a trainingperiod via a “Training Time” widget 605, a testing period via a “TestTime” widget 610, and a set of funds to be studied via a “Fund list”widget 615. The user may use the “LOAD DATA” button 620 to load thetraining and/or test data into memory, and samples of data will show upin the “Sample Trajectories” table 625. The user may use the “RUN IRL”button 630 to use the IRL technique and the “RUN RL” button 635 to usethe RL technique to learn an optimal policy. The user may viewrecommended trades in the “Recommended Trade Samples” table 640. Theuser may use the “Download Recommended Trades” button 645 to downloadthe recommended trades (e.g., as a CSV file). Upon finishing the IRLexecution, the table “IRL Summary” 650 lists the success metrics of thelearning process against the training data, and charts “IRL: rho” 655and “IRL: eta” 660 illustrate the converge curve for reward parametersrho and eta. The RL module provides the recommended trades for the testperiod and also plots figures “RL: average” 665, “RL: individual train”670, and “RL: individual test” 675 to show the outperformance ofMRLAPM-driven portfolio over fund managers' history in the back test.The user may use the “REBALANCE” button 680 to place an ordercorresponding to the recommended trades.

FIG. 7 shows non-limiting, example embodiments of an architecture forthe MRLAPM. In FIG. 7 , an embodiment of how an AI Planner (RL Agent)730 may interact with a user retirement planning environment 701 tolearn an optimized withdrawal policy is illustrated.

The RL agent datastructure (e.g., model) takes states information (e.g.,user account values, age, year of retirement) from the environment asinputs and outputs account withdrawals (e.g., from brokerage, IRA, Roth,TDA, and/or the like accounts) as actions. The RL agent also receivesrewards as feedback from the environment after its actions are appliedto the environment. The reward functions are designed to mainly evaluatethe level of satisfaction of user specified goals (e.g., bequest, totalafter-negative-asset-value-force (e.g., after fees, losses, taxes,and/or the like negative-asset-value-forces) periodic (e.g., annual)withdrawal amount (ATWD), life event fulfillments).

The RL agent datastructure is trained using states and rewards collectedfrom its interaction with the environment. Once training is completed,the RL agent datastructure is able to provide optimal accountwithdrawals that can meet users' retirement goals starting from his/herretirement age and throughout the planning period.

The environment may comprise a set of components 705-725. A user marketview inputs component 705 may comprise users' market view in terms ofexpected equity, bond and cash returns as inputs. Given user account'sportfolio allocation, the expected portfolio return can be calculatedaccordingly. In various implementations, the expected portfolio returnsmay be: (1) constant values, (2) samples from a probabilisticdistribution (e.g., Gaussian distribution with user specified mean andstandard deviation), (3) samples from portfolio return paths with userspecified mean and standard deviation, and/or the like. If (2) or (3) isselected, a market return simulator component 710 may be utilized toconduct return simulation from a probabilistic distribution or evenlyfrom return paths in a given planning year. The simulated portfolioreturns of a current year may be utilized to calculate the next year'saccount holdings.

A user retirement goal inputs and evaluation component 715 may obtaingoals/user retirement requests inputs such as: a list of life events'expenses in dollar amount at corresponding years, expected bequest indollar amount at the end of the planning period, a range ofafter-negative-asset-value-force periodic (e.g., annual) withdrawals(ATWDs) in dollar amount, expected retirement year and planning length,and/or the like. The user retirement goal inputs and evaluationcomponent may evaluate the satisfaction of the goals/user retirementrequests, and provide feedbacks as rewards to the RL agent.

A user accounts' holdings component 720 may store information regardinguser accounts such as brokerage, IRA, Roth, TDA, and/or the likeaccounts to facilitate optimizing the account withdrawal locationproblem to satisfy user retirement planning requests. In someimplementations, information regarding a user's SSN income and year,spouse's accounts and SSN income, and/or the like may be stored andutilized. A user's account values for the next year may be calculatedbased on a current year's values, annual withdrawals, and portfolioreturns.

A negative-asset-value-force calculator component 725 may calculatenegative-asset-value-force cost from users' account withdrawals. In someembodiments, filing information such as state of taxation, filing status(e.g., single, married filing jointly, married filing separately),withholding rate, required minimum distribution (RMD) from IRA, and/orthe like may be utilized. In one implementation, thenegative-asset-value-force calculator component may execute throughonline API calls running through a full process ofnegative-asset-value-force calculation with more accuratenegative-asset-value-force cost estimation but longer execution time. Inanother implementation, the negative-asset-value-force calculatorcomponent may execute through a machine learning estimator:negative-asset-value-force estimation via a pre-trained (e.g., XGBoost)estimator, which takes account withdrawals and filing information asinputs. The estimator is trained by the data collected from inputs andoutputs from API calls, and provides a faster estimation.

FIG. 8 shows non-limiting, example embodiments of an architecture forthe MRLAPM. In FIG. 8 , an embodiment of how an RL Agent 830 mayinteract with a user retirement planning environment 801 to learn anoptimized withdrawal policy is illustrated.

In one implementation, the RL Agent comprises an actor artificial neuralnetwork (ANN) 835A and a critic artificial neural network 840A. As shownat 835B, the actor ANN may take state as input and output optimalaccount withdrawal actions, which may be further scaled to observevarious constraints and/or bounds (e.g., RMDs). As shown at 840B, thecritic ANN may take state as input and output the value of the state(e.g., reward predicted by the critic ANN based on the state).

In the training phase, the RL agent datastructure (e.g., model) mayswitch between two execution modes:

Exploration Mode: In this mode, the RL agent keeps interacting with theenvironment by taking states as inputs, providing actions via thecurrent actor network, and receiving rewards (e.g., as specified by areward function (e.g., total reward=intermediate years rewards+finalyear reward, where annual rewards are specified by a sigmoid functionwith a penalty)). Explored records including {state, action, reward} arecollected.

ANN Update Mode: Once enough records are collected, the RL agentdatastructure is switched to update the actor and critic networkparameters through an RL technique (e.g., Proximal Policy Optimization(PPO) method) using the collected data and a training loss function 845(e.g., Training_loss_function=Critic_loss+Actor_loss+Entropy_loss, whereCritic_loss is the Mean Squared Error (MSE) between rewards and criticvalues, and critic values are the outputs from critic network givenstates as inputs, where Actor_loss=−1*(New policy probability/old policyprobability)*(rewards—state value), and where Entropy_loss is added toencourage exploration).

Once the ANN parameters are updated, the RL agent datastructure isswitched back to the exploration mode to collect more data. Suchiterations stop when the average rewards from consecutive iterationsdon't change (e.g., beyond a specified threshold), which can be a signof the training phase's convergence. Once the training phase converges,the actor network may be saved and deployed to provide optimal accountwithdrawals in dollar amount based upon users' requests.

FIGS. 9A-B show non-limiting, example embodiments of a datagraphillustrating data flow(s) for the MRLAPM. In FIGS. 9A-B, an admin client902 (e.g., of an administrative user) may send a machine learning (ML)training input 921 to a ML training server 904 to facilitate training aprediction logic using a machine learning technique. For example, theadmin client may be a desktop, a laptop, a tablet, a smartphone, asmartwatch, and/or the like that is executing a client application. Inone implementation, the ML training input may include data such as arequest identifier, RL technique details, configuration parameters forthe RL technique, a set of training sample configuration datas tructures, market return simulator settings, and/or the like. In oneembodiment, the admin client may provide the following example MLtraining input, substantially in the form of a (Secure) HypertextTransfer Protocol (“HTTP(S)”) POST message including eXtensible MarkupLanguage (“XML”) formatted data, as provided below:

POST /authrequest.php HTTP/1.1 Host: www.server.com Content-Type:Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XML version = “1.0” encoding =“UTF-8”?> <auth_request>  <timestamp>2020-12-31 23:59:59</timestamp> <user_accounts_details>   <user_account_credentials>   <user_name>JohnDaDoeDoeDoooe@gmail.com</user_name>   <password>abc123</password>    //OPTIONAL <cookie>cookieID</cookie>   //OPTIONAL <digital_cert_link>www.mydigitalcertificate.com/JohnDoeDaDoeDoe@gmail.com/mycertifcate.dc</digital_cert_link>   //OPTIONAL <digital_certificate>_DATA_</digital_certificate>  </user_account_credentials>  </user_accounts_details> <client_details> //iOS Client with App and Webkit    //it should benoted that although several client details    //sections are provided toshow example variants of client    //sources, further messages willinclude only on to save    //space   <client_IP>10.0.0.123</client_IP>  <user_agent_string>Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_1_1 like MacOS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11D201Safari/9537.53</user_agent_string>  <client_product_type>iPhone6,1</client_product_type>  <client_serial_number>DNXXX1X1XXXX</client_serial_number>  <client_UDID>3XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXD</client_UDID>  <client_OS>iOS</client_OS>  <client_OS_version>7.1.1</client_OS_version>   <client_app_type>appwith webkit</client_app_type>  <app_installed_flag>true</app_installed_flag>  <app_name>MRLAPM.app</app_name>   <app_version>1.0 </app_version>  <app_webkit_name>Mobile Safari</client_webkit_name>  <client_version>537.51.2</client_version>  </client_details> <client_details> //iOS Client with Webbrowser  <client_IP>10.0.0.123</client_IP>   <user_agent_string>Mozilla/5.0(iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_1_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.2 (KHTML,like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11D201 Safari/9537.53</user_agent_string>  <client_product_type>iPhone6,1</client_product_type>  <client_serial_number>DNXXX1X1XXXX</client_serial_number>  <client_UDID>3XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXD</client_UDID>  <client_OS>iOS</client_OS>  <client_OS_version>7.1.1</client_OS_version>   <client_app_type>webbrowser</client_app_type>   <client_name>Mobile Safari</client_name>  <client_version>9537.53</client_version>  </client_details> <client_details> //Android Client with Webbrowser  <client_IP>10.0.0.123</client_IP>   <user_agent_string>Mozilla/5.0(Linux; U; Android 4.0.4; en-us; Nexus S Build/IMM76D)AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 MobileSafari/534.30</user_agent_string>   <client_product_type>NexusS</client_product_type>  <client_serial_number>YXXXXXXXXZ</client_serial_number>  <client_UDID>FXXXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXXX</client_UDID>  <client_OS>Android</client_OS>  <client_OS_version>4.0.4</client_OS_version>   <client_app_type>webbrowser</client_app_type>   <client_name>Mobile Safari</client_name>  <client_version>534.30</client_version>  </client_details> <client_details> //Mac Desktop with Webbrowser  <client_IP>10.0.0.123</client_IP>   <user_agent_string>Mozilla/5.0(Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_3) AppleWebKit/537.75.14 (KHTML, likeGecko) Version/7.0.3 Safari/537.75.14</user_agent_string>  <client_product_type>MacPro5,1</client_product_type>  <client_serial_number>YXXXXXXXXZ</client_serial_number>  <client_UDID>FXXXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXXX</client_UDID>  <client_OS>Mac OS X</client_OS>  <client_OS_version>10.9.3</client_OS_version>   <client_app_type>webbrowser</client_app_type>   <client_name>Mobile Safari</client_name>  <client_version>537.75.14</client_version>  </client_details> <machine_learning_training_input>  <request_identifier>ID_request_11</request_identifier>  <RL_technique_identifier>ID_PPO</RL_technique_identifier>  <configuration_parameters>   <number_of_networks>10</number_of_networks>   <optimal_policy_reward_function>     total = intermediate years +final year     intermediate years: 1 if the ATWD is met, penaltyotherwise     final year: sum of market values of the accounts   </optimal_policy_reward_function>   </configuration_parameters>  <training_sample_configurations>    <training_sample_configuration>    <training_sample_configuration_identifier>     ID_training_sample_configuration_1    </training_sample_configuration_identifier>   <accounts>   <account>     <account_identifier>ID_account_1</account_identifier>    <account_type>BROKERAGE</account_type>    <account_amount>$215,000</account_amount>    </account>    <account>    <account_identifier>ID_account_2</account_identifier>    <account_type>TDA</account_type>    <account_amount>$310,000</account_amount>    </account>    <account>    <account_identifier>ID_account_3</account_identifier>    <account_type>ROTH</account_type>    <account_amount>$235,000</account_amount>    </account>  </accounts>   <incomes>    <income>    <income_identifier>ID_income_1</income_identifier>    <income_type>SOCIAL_SECURITY</income_type>    <income_amount>$10,000</income_amount>    <income_date_start>01/01/2026</income_date_start>    <income_date_end>PERPETUAL</income_date_end>    </income>   <income>     <income_identifier>ID_income_2</income_identifier>    <income_type>JOB</income_type>    <income_amount>$20,000</income_amount>    <income_date_start>01/01/2026</income_date_start>    <income_date_end>01/01/2031</income_date_end>    </income>  </incomes>   <retirement_start_year>2026</retirement_start_year>  <retirement_start_age>67</retirement_start_age>  <ATWD_constant>$80,000</ATWD_constant>   <ATWD_variable>   <retirement_year>10</retirement_year>    <amount>+$200,000</amount>  </ATWD_variable>   <bequest>    <retirement_year>40</retirement_year>   <amount>$100,000</amount>   </bequest> </training_sample_configuration>  <training_sample_configuration>   <training_sample_configuration_identifier>     ID_training_sample_configuration_2   </training_sample_configuration_identifier>    <accounts>    <account>     <account_identifier>ID_account_11</account_identifier>     <account_type>BROKERAGE</account_type>     <account_amount>$325,000</account_amount>     </account>    <account>     <account_identifier>ID_account_12</account_identifier>     <account_type>TDA</account_type>     <account_amount>$100,000</account_amount>     </account>    <account>     <account_identifier>ID_account_13</account_identifier>     <account_type>ROTH</account_type>     <account_amount>$225,000</account_amount>     </account>   </accounts>    <incomes>     <income>     <income_identifier>ID_income_11</income_identifier>     <income_type>SOCIAL_SECURITY</income_type>     <income_amount>$30,000</income_amount>     <income_date_start>01/01/2026</income_date_start>     <income_date_end>PERPETUAL</income_date_end>     </income>   </incomes>    <retirement_start_year>2026</retirement_start_year>   <retirement_start_age>66</retirement_start_age>   <ATWD_constant>$60,000</ATWD_constant>    <ATWD_variable>    <retirement_year>1</retirement_year>     <amount>−$20,000</amount>   </ATWD_variable>    <ATWD_variable>    <retirement_year>2</retirement_year>     <amount>−$20,000</amount>   </ATWD_variable>   </training_sample_configuration>   ... </training_sample_configurations>  <market_return_simulator_settings>  PREDEFINED_MARKET_PATHS  </market_return_simulator_settings> </machine_learning_training_input> </auth_request>

A machine learning training (MLT) component 925 may utilize dataprovided in the ML training input to train a prediction logic thatprovides optimized withdrawal policy recommendations. See FIG. 10 foradditional details regarding the MLT component.

The ML training server 904 may send a prediction logic store request 929to a ML repository 910 to store the trained prediction logic. In oneimplementation, the prediction logic store request may include data suchas a request identifier, a request type, a prediction logic identifier,prediction logic trained structure, and/or the like. In one embodiment,the ML training server may provide the following example predictionlogic store request, substantially in the form of a HTTP(S) POST messageincluding XML-formatted data, as provided below:

POST /prediction_logic_store_request.php HTTP/1.1 Host: www.server.comContent-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XML version = “1.0”encoding = “UTF-8”?> <prediction_logic_store_request> <request_identifier>ID_request_12</request_identifier> <request_type>STORE</request_type> <prediction_logic_identifier>ID_prediction_logic_11</prediction_logic_identifier> <prediction_logic_trained_structure>  optimaL poLicy datastructure </prediction_logic_trained_structure> </prediction_logic_store_request>

The ML repository 910 may send a prediction logic store response 933 tothe ML training server 904 to confirm that the trained prediction logicwas stored successfully. In one implementation, the prediction logicstore response may include data such as a response identifier, a status,and/or the like. In one embodiment, the ML repository may provide thefollowing example prediction logic store response, substantially in theform of a HTTP(S) POST message including XML-formatted data, as providedbelow:

  POST /prediction_logic_store_response.php HTTP/1.1 Host:www.server.com Content-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XMLversion = “1.0” encoding = “UTF-8”?> <prediction_logic_store_response> <response_identifier>ID_response_12</response_identifier> <status>OK</status> </prediction_logic_store_response>

The ML training server 904 may send a machine learning training output937 to the admin client 902 to inform the administrative user thattraining was completed successfully. In one implementation, the machinelearning training output may include data such as a response identifier,a status, and/or the like. In one embodiment, the ML training server mayprovide the following example machine learning training output,substantially in the form of a HTTP(S) POST message includingXML-formatted data, as provided below:

  POST /machine_learning_training_output.php HTTP/1.1 Host:www.server.com Content-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XMLversion = “1.0” encoding = “UTF-8”?> <machine_learning_training_output> <response_identifier>ID_response_11</response_identifier> <status>OK</status> </machine_learning_training_output>

A user client 908 (e.g., of a user) may send a withdrawal policyoptimization input 941 to a MRLAPM server 906 to facilitate obtaining anoptimized withdrawal policy datastructure. For example, the user clientmay be a desktop, a laptop, a tablet, a smartphone, a smartwatch, and/orthe like that is executing a client application. In one implementation,the withdrawal policy optimization input may include data such as arequest identifier, a prediction logic identifier, an initial state,market return simulator settings, and/or the like. In one embodiment,the user client may provide the following example withdrawal policyoptimization input, substantially in the form of a HTTP(S) POST messageincluding XML-formatted data, as provided below:

  POST /withdrawal_policy_optimization_input.php HTTP/1.1 Host:www.server.com Content-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XMLversion = “1.0” encoding = “UTF-8”?><withdrawal_policy_optimization_input>  <request_identifier>ID_request_13</request_identifier>  <prediction_logic_identifier>ID_prediction_logic_11</prediction_logic_identifier>  <initial_state>     <user_identifier>ID_user_11</user_identifier>    <accounts>       <account>         <account_identifier>ID_account_1</account_identifier>         <account_type>BROKERAGE</account_type>         <account_amount>$225,000</account_amount>        </account>       <account>         <account_identifier>ID_account_2</account_identifier>         <account_type>TDA</account_type>         <account_amount>$300,000</account_amount>        </account>       <account>         <account_identifier>ID_account_3</account_identifier>         <account_type>ROTH</account_type>         <account_amount>$225,000</account_amount>        </account>     </accounts>      <incomes>        <income>         <income_identifier>ID_income_1</income_identifier>         <income_type>SOCIAL_SECURITY</income_type>         <income_amount>$10,000</income_amount>         <income_date_start>01/01/2026</income_date_start>         <income_date_end>PERPETUAL</income_date_end>        </income>     </incomes>      <retirement_start_year>2026</retirement_start_year>     <retirement_start_age>67</retirement_start_age>     <ATWD_constant>$80,000</ATWD_constant>      <ATWD_variable>       <retirement_year>5</retirement_year>       <amount>+$200,000</amount>      </ATWD_variable>      <bequest>       <retirement_year>40</retirement_year>       <amount>$300,000</amount>      </bequest>    </initial_state>   <market_return_simulator_settings>      <equity>20%</equity>     <conditions>POOR_MARKET</conditions>   </market_return_simulator_settings> </withdrawal_policy_optimization_input>

The MRLAPM server 906 may send a prediction logic retrieve request 945to the ML repository 910 to retrieve a trained prediction logic. In oneimplementation, the prediction logic retrieve request may include datasuch as a request identifier, a request type, a prediction logicidentifier, and/or the like. In one embodiment, the MRLAPM server mayprovide the following example prediction logic retrieve request,substantially in the form of a HTTP(S) POST message includingXML-formatted data, as provided below:

  POST /prediction_logic_retrieve_request.php HTTP/1.1 Host:www.server.com Content-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XMLversion = “1.0” encoding = “UTF-8”?> <prediction_logic_retrieve_request>  <request_identifier>ID_request_14</request_identifier>  <request_type>RETRIEVE</request_type>  <prediction_logic_identifier>ID_prediction_logic_11</prediction_logic_identifier></prediction_logic_retrieve_request>

The ML repository 910 may send a prediction logic retrieve response 949to the MRLAPM server 906 with the requested trained prediction logic. Inone implementation, the prediction logic retrieve response may includedata such as a response identifier, the requested prediction logictrained structure, and/or the like. In one embodiment, the ML repositorymay provide the following example prediction logic retrieve response,substantially in the form of a HTTP(S) POST message includingXML-formatted data, as provided below:

  POST /prediction_logic_retrieve_response.php HTTP/1.1 Host:www.server.com Content-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XMLversion = “1.0” encoding = “UTF-8”?><prediction_logic_retrieve_response>  <response_identifier>ID_response_14</response_identifier>  <prediction_logic_trained_structure>     optimal policy datastructure  </prediction_logic_trained_structure></prediction_logic_retrieve_response>

An optimized withdrawal policy generating (OWPG) component 953 mayutilize data provided in the withdrawal policy optimization input and/orthe retrieved prediction logic to generate an optimized withdrawalpolicy datastructure. See FIG. 11 for additional details regarding theOWPG component.

The MRLAPM server 906 may send a withdrawal policy optimization output957 to the user client 908 to provide the user with the optimizedwithdrawal policy datastructure. In one implementation, the withdrawalpolicy optimization output may include data such as a responseidentifier, the optimized withdrawal policy datastructure, and/or thelike. In one embodiment, the MRLAPM server may provide the followingexample withdrawal policy optimization output, substantially in the formof a HTTP(S) POST message including XML-formatted data, as providedbelow:

  POST /withdrawal_policy_optimization_output.php HTTP/1.1 Host:www.server.com Content-Type: Application/XML Content-Length: 667 <?XMLversion = “1.0” encoding = “UTF-8”?><withdrawal_policy_optimization_output>  <response_identifier>ID_response_13</response_identifier>    <optimized_withdrawal_policy_datastructure>      <period_withdrawal_policy>         <year>1</year>        <accounts>           <account>            <account_identifier>ID_account_1</account_identifier>            <account_type>BROKERAGE</account_type>            <annual_withdrawal_amount>$40,000</annual_withdrawal_amount>          </account>           <account>            <account_identifier>ID_account_2</account_identifier>            <account_type>TDA</account_type>            <annual_withdrawal_amount>$30,000</annual_withdrawal_amount>          </account>           <account>            <account_identifier>ID_account_3</account_identifier>            <account_type>ROTH</account_type>            <annual_withdrawal_amount>$5,000</annual_withdrawal_amount>          </account>         </accounts>      </period_withdrawal_policy>       <period_withdrawal_policy>        <year>2</year>         <accounts>           <account>            <account_identifier>ID_account_1</account_identifier>            <account_type>BROKERAGE</account_type>            <annual_withdrawal_amount>$35,000</annual_withdrawal_amount>          </account>           <account>            <account_identifier>ID_account_2</account_identifier>            <account_type>TDA</account_type>            <annual_withdrawal_amount>$30,000</annual_withdrawal_amount>          </account>           <account>            <account_identifier>ID_account_3</account_identifier>            <account_type>ROTH</account_type>            <annual_withdrawal_amount>$5,000</annual_withdrawal_amount>          </account>         </accounts>      </period_withdrawal_policy>       ...      <period_withdrawal_policy>         <year>5</year>        <accounts>           <account>            <account_identifier>ID_account_1</account_identifier>            <account_type>BROKERAGE</account_type>            <annual_withdrawal_amount>$35,000</annual_withdrawal_amount>          </account>           <account>            <account_identifier>ID_account_2</account_identifier>            <account_type>TDA</account_type>            <annual_withdrawal_amount>$30,000</annual_withdrawal_amount>          </account>           <account>            <account_identifier>ID_account_3</account_identifier>            <account_type>ROTH</account_type>            <annual_withdrawal_amount>$205,000</annual_withdrawal_amount>          </account>         </accounts>      </period_withdrawal_policy>       ...    </optimized_withdrawal_policy_datastructure></withdrawal_policy_optimization_output>

FIG. 10 shows non-limiting, example embodiments of a logic flowillustrating a machine learning training (MLT) component for the MRLAPM.In FIG. 10 , a machine learning (ML) training request may be obtained at1001. For example, the ML training request may be obtained as a resultof an administrative user initiating training of a prediction logic thatprovides optimized withdrawal policy recommendations.

Market return simulator settings for a market return simulator may bedetermined at 1005. In one embodiment, the market return simulator mayutilize constant return values to simulate market returns. For example,the market return simulator settings may specify an overall returnvalue, a return value for equities, a return value for bonds, a returnvalue for cash, and/or the like (e.g., annual percentage return values,return values based on any other planning period length). In anotherembodiment, the market return simulator may utilize samples from aprobabilistic distribution to simulate market returns. For example, themarket return simulator settings may specify a probabilisticdistribution (e.g., Gaussian distribution) and/or probabilisticdistribution configuration settings (e.g., mean and standard deviation).In another embodiment, the market return simulator may utilize samplesfrom a set of market return paths to simulate market returns. Forexample, the market return simulator settings may specify a marketreturn path shape and/or market return path configuration settings(e.g., mean and standard deviation). See chart 1201 in FIG. 12 for anexample set of sample market return paths with specified mean andstandard deviation. In another example, the market return simulatorsettings may specify a set of predefined market return paths (e.g., toreduce the complexity of simulating the market return from a stochasticprocess). See charts 1205 in FIG. 12 for an example set of samplepredefined market return paths. In one implementation, the ML trainingrequest may be parsed (e.g., using PHP commands) to determine the marketreturn simulator settings (e.g., based on the value of themarket_return_simulator_settings field).

An optimal policy reward function may be determined at 1009. In oneembodiment, the optimal policy reward function may specify a reward(e.g., a total reward) for a training sample associated with taking aset of actions given an initial state for the training sample. In oneimplementation, the ML training request may be parsed (e.g., using PHPcommands) to determine the optimal policy reward function (e.g., basedon the value of the optimal_policy_reward_function field). For example,an optimal policy reward function similar to the following may beutilized:

  total reward = intermediate years rewards + final year rewardintermediate years rewards: 1 if the ATWD is met, penalty otherwisefinal year reward: sum of market values of the accounts where: ATWD mayinclude ATWD constant and/or ATWD variable (e.g., the sum of ATWDconstant and ATWD variable)

In another example, an optimal policy reward function similar to thefollowing may be utilized:

  total reward = intermediate years rewards + final year rewardintermediate years rewards: IReward(t) final year reward: TReward where:Intermediate Rewards (sigmoid with penalty) IReward(t): if $withdrawal > ATWD:   IReward(t) = sigmoid($ withdrawal − ATWD), t=1, 2,..., T else:   IReward(t) = −100 Bequest Reward BReward(T): if $withdrawal > ATWD:   BReward(T) = sigmoid(bequest − lower bound ofbequest) else:   BReward(T) = −100 Terminal Reward TReward: TReward =IReward(T) + lambda * BReward(T) where lambda is the balance between thedesire for certain lifestyle and bequest where: ATWD may include ATWDconstant and/or ATWD variable (e.g., the sum of ATWD constant and ATWDvariable)

A training convergence threshold may be determined at 1013. For example,a threshold change in average rewards between training iterations may beutilized as the training convergence threshold. In one embodiment, thetraining convergence threshold may be used to determine when an optimalpolicy is learned (e.g., parameters of the optimal policy converge) andtraining should end. In one implementation, a configuration settingassociated with the utilized ML technique may be checked to determinethe training convergence threshold.

A determination may be made at 1017 whether there remain action networksto utilize. In one embodiment, an action network (e.g., actor networkand/or critic network of an RL agent) may be initialized with a randomseed. Since the problem is not convex, an action network may be trappedin a local minimum (e.g., resulting in poor performance). Accordingly,in some embodiments, a plurality of action networks with different seedsmay be utilized to increase the exploration range. In oneimplementation, the ML training request may be parsed (e.g., using PHPcommands) to determine the number of action networks to utilize (e.g.,based on the value of the number_of_networks field). If there remainaction networks to utilize, the next action network to utilize may beselected for processing at 1021. It is to be understood that, in someimplementations, action networks may be processed in parallel toincrease training speed. The selected action network may be initializedwith a seed at 1025. In one implementation, a random seed may beutilized to initialize the selected action network. For example, theselected action network's weights may be initialized using PyTorch'suniform distributed initialization technique.

A determination may be made at 1029 whether an optimal policy waslearned by the selected action network. In one implementation, theoptimal policy is learned when parameters of the optimal policy converge(e.g., based on the training convergence threshold). In one embodiment,the optimal policy may be structured to minimize the cumulativenegative-asset-value-force costs within a time horizon, while satisfyingminimum income requirements and/or maximining the market value ofaccount holdings at the end of the time horizon. In some embodiments,the optimal policy may be structured to satisfy other objectives such asmaximizing withdrawal amount, minimizing the volatility of withdrawalamount, minimizing the probability of premature account holdingsdepletion, maximizing the estate size, and/or the like.

If the optimal policy was not learned yet, a determination may be madeat 1033 whether to generate more training samples. In one embodiment,some number N (e.g., 1000) of training samples may be utilized duringeach training iteration. In one implementation, new training samples maybe generated for each training iteration. In another implementation,previously generated training samples may be reused (e.g., in whole, inpart in combination with some newly generated training samples, sharedamong the plurality of actions networks) during subsequent trainingiterations. For example, a configuration setting associated with theutilized ML technique may be checked to determine the number N oftraining samples to generate.

If more training samples should be generated, an initial state for atraining sample may be determined at 1037. For example, a state maycomprise data such as user information (e.g., age, filing status,location), accounts information, incomes information, retirementinformation (e.g., retirement year, planning horizon, ATWD constant(e.g., desired annual withdrawals), ATWD variable (e.g., additionalwithdrawals for specific events (e.g., purchasing a vacation house)),bequest amount), and/or the like. In one embodiment, an initial statemay be selected from a set of specified possible examples. In anotherembodiment, an initial state may be generated randomly (e.g., withinspecified bounds). In one implementation, the ML training request may beparsed (e.g., using PHP commands) to determine the initial state for thetraining sample (e.g., based on the values of thetraining_sample_configuration fields).

A determination may be made at 1041 whether there remain more planningperiods to process (e.g., based on the planning horizon) for thetraining sample. In one implementation, each of the planning periods(e.g., from retirement start year planning period 0 to final year T) forthe training sample may be processed. If there remain more planningperiods to process for the training sample, the next planning period maybe selected for processing at 1045.

An action for the selected planning period may be determined using theactor network at 1049. In one embodiment, the action is a withdrawalpolicy that specifies withdrawal amounts for each of the accounts andthat is determined using the actor network given the current state(e.g., the initial state for planning period 0, an updated state forsubsequent planning periods). In one implementation, the actor networkmay take the current state as input and may output a set of accountwithdrawal actions (e.g., amount to withdraw from brokerage accountduring the selected planning period, amount to withdraw from TDA accountduring the selected planning period, and amount to withdraw from ROTHaccount during the selected planning period). These account withdrawalactions may be further scaled to observe various constraints and/orbounds (e.g., RMDs). For example, a set of constraints similar to thefollowing may be utilized:

  Constraints: sum(withdrawals) − negative-asset-value-force = ATWD −other incomes RMD <= withdrawal <= account value where: ATWD may includeATWD constant and/or ATWD variable (e.g., the sum of ATWD constant andATWD variable)

A negative-asset-value-force cost for the selected planning period maybe calculated at 1053. In one embodiment, the negative-asset-value-forcecost for the selected planning period may be calculated using anegative-asset-value-force calculator component based on the action forthe selected planning period and information regardingnegative-asset-value-forces (e.g., account transaction fees, accountwithdrawal penalties, filing information). In one implementation, thenegative-asset-value-force cost for the selected planning period may becalculated using online API calls. In another implementation, thenegative-asset-value-force cost for the selected planning period may becalculated using a machine learning estimator.

A reward for the selected planning period may be determined using theoptimal policy reward function at 1057. For example, an intermediateyear reward may be calculated for intermediate years (e.g., t<T). Inanother example, a final year reward may be calculated for the finalyear (e.g., t=T). In one implementation, the withdrawal policy for theselected planning period adjusted by the negative-asset-value-force costfor the selected planning period may be evaluated using the optimalpolicy reward function to determine the reward for the selected planningperiod.

A portfolio return for the selected planning period may be simulatedusing the market return simulator at 1061. In one embodiment, the marketreturn simulator may simulate an overall market return. In anotherembodiment, the market return simulator may simulate separate marketreturns for different asset types (e.g., equities, bonds, cash). In oneimplementation, each of the accounts may be analyzed using the simulatedmarket return(s) and/or a respective account's asset type allocationand/or the respective account's negative-asset-value-force cost tocalculate the respective account's holdings (e.g., account balance) forthe next planning period (e.g., t+1). For example, an account's holdingsfor the next planning period may be calculated as follows:

  Account holdings for planning period t+1: Holdings(t+1) = (Holdings(t)− withdrawal(t) − negative-asset-value-force cost(t)) * (1 + simulatedreturnIn another example, an account's holdings for the next planning periodmay be calculated as follows:

  Account holdings for planning period t+1: Holdings(t+1) =  ((Holdings_(equities)(t) − withdrawal_(equities)(t) −negative-asset-value-force cost_(equities)(t)) * (1 + simulatedreturn_(equities))) +   ((Holdings_(bonds)(t) − withdrawal_(bonds)(t) −negative-asset-value-force cost_(bonds)(t)) * (1 + simulatedreturn_(bonds))) +   ((Holdings_(cash)(t) − withdrawal_(cash)(t) −negative-asset-value-force cost_(cash)(t)) * (1 + simulatedreturn_(cash))) In one implementation, withdrawals for different assettypes may be proportional to a respective asset type’s accountallocation percentage (e.g., if the account comprises 50% equities, 30%bonds and 20% cash, for each $100 withdrawal indicated by the withdrawalpolicy for the account 50$ are withdrawn from equities, $30 arewithdrawn from bonds and $20 are withdrawn from cash).

The current state may be updated for the next planning period at 1065.For example, account holdings for the next planning period may beupdated to reflect the calculated account holdings. In another example,user's age, planning year, and/or the like may be updated. In oneimplementation, a current state datastructure holding data regarding thecurrent state (e.g., having data fields similar to those discussed withregard to the training_sample_configuration field of the ML trainingrequest) may be updated (e.g., using PHP commands).

If there do not remain more planning periods to process for the trainingsample, the training sample may be generated at 1069. In oneimplementation, the training sample may be a set of training sampledatastructures that each comprise the following data fields: {state,action, reward} for each individual planning period. For example,training data similar to the following may be specified:

  state: variables including a) market values in each of the accounts,b) number of years in the planning period (i.e., t-th year), and c)user’s age at year t action: withdrawal amounts from the accountsreward: scalar value from the optimal policy reward function

If enough training samples were generated, an RL technique may be usedon the training samples to learn the optimal policy at 1073. Forexample, the proximal policy optimization (PPO) RL technique may be used(e.g., specified via the ML training request (e.g., based on the valueof the RL_technique_identifier field)). In one implementation, the PPOtechnique may be used on the training samples to update the actor and/orcritic networks. For example, the PPO technique may be used as follows:

  Update the actor and critic networks byMinimize(Training_loss_function) Training_loss_function = Critic_loss +Actor_loss + Entropy_loss where: Critic_loss is the Mean Squared Error(MSE) between rewards and critic values, and critic values are theoutputs from the critic network given states as inputs Actor_loss = −1 *(New policy probability / old policy probability) * (rewards − statevalue) Entropy_loss is added to encourage exploration

If the optimal policy was learned by the selected action network, anoptimal policy rank for the selected action network may be determined at1077. For example, average rewards may be used to determine optimalpolicy ranks of action networks. In one implementation, average rewardsduring the last training iteration may be used as the optimal policyrank for the selected action network. In another implementation, averagerewards obtained by testing on a set of testing samples may be used asthe optimal policy rank for the selected action network. Once the actionnetworks to utilize have been ranked, an action network with the highestoptimal policy rank may be selected at 1081. In one embodiment, theaction network with the highest optimal policy rank may be expected tohave the best performance.

An optimal policy datastructure (e.g., corresponding to the selectedaction network) may be stored at 1085. In one implementation, theoptimal policy datastructure may comprise the parameters (e.g.,structure (e.g., comprising network structure and model weights for eachlayer) of the actor network and/or critic network) of the optimal policyand may define the prediction logic. For example, the optimal policydatastructure (e.g., prediction logic structure that defines theprediction logic) may be stored (e.g., via PyTorch using the .pt fileextension) in the ML table 1419 j.

FIG. 11 shows non-limiting, example embodiments of a logic flowillustrating an optimized withdrawal policy generating (OWPG) componentfor the MRLAPM. In FIG. 11 , a withdrawal policy optimization requestdatastructure may be obtained at 1101. For example, the withdrawalpolicy optimization request datastructure may be obtained as a result ofa user sending a withdrawal policy optimization input to facilitateobtaining an optimized withdrawal policy datastructure.

Market return simulator settings (e.g., returnvalues/distributions/paths) may be determined at 1105. In oneembodiment, the market return simulator may utilize constant returnvalues to simulate market returns. In another embodiment, the marketreturn simulator may utilize samples from a probabilistic distributionto simulate market returns. In another embodiment, the market returnsimulator may utilize samples from a set of market return paths tosimulate market returns. In one implementation, the withdrawal policyoptimization request datastructure may be parsed (e.g., using PHPcommands) to determine the market return simulator settings (e.g., basedon the value of the market_return_simulator_settings field). Forexample, the user may specify an asset types mix (e.g., 20% equities and80% bonds) of the user's retirement portfolio and/or market conditions(e.g., poor market) for which to generate an optimized withdrawalpolicy.

An initial state associated with the user may be determined at 1109. Forexample, a state may comprise data such as user information (e.g., age,filing status, location), accounts information, incomes information,retirement information (e.g., retirement year, planning horizon, ATWDconstant (e.g., desired annual withdrawals), ATWD variable (e.g.,additional withdrawals for specific events (e.g., purchasing a vacationhouse)), bequest amount), and/or the like. In one implementation, thewithdrawal policy optimization request datastructure may be parsed(e.g., using PHP commands) to determine the initial state associatedwith (e.g., specified by) the user (e.g., based on the value of theinitial_state field).

An optimal policy datastructure may be retrieved at 1113. In oneembodiment, the optimal policy datastructure may comprise data fieldsthat specify the structure of a prediction logic (e.g., an actor ANN)that corresponds to an optimal policy that provides an optimizedwithdrawal policy. In one implementation, the withdrawal policyoptimization request datastructure may be parsed (e.g., using PHPcommands) to determine the optimal policy datastructure specified by theuser (e.g., based on the value of the prediction_logic_identifier field)and/or the specified optimal policy datastructure may be retrieved froma repository. In another implementation, a default optimal policydatastructure (e.g., overall, for a specific type of user, for aspecific market condition, for a specific asset types mix, and/or thelike) may be retrieved from a repository.

A determination may be made at 1117 whether there remain more planningperiods to process (e.g., based on the planning horizon). In oneimplementation, each of the planning periods (e.g., from retirementstart year planning period 0 to final year T) may be processed. If thereremain more planning periods to process, the next planning period may beselected for processing at 1121.

An action for the selected planning period may be determined using theretrieved actor network at 1125. In one embodiment, the action is awithdrawal policy that specifies withdrawal amounts for each of theaccounts and that is determined using the actor network given thecurrent state (e.g., the initial state for planning period 0, an updatedstate for subsequent planning periods). In one implementation, the actornetwork may take the current state as input and may output a set ofaccount withdrawal actions (e.g., amount to withdraw from brokerageaccount during the selected planning period, amount to withdraw from TDAaccount during the selected planning period, and amount to withdraw fromROTH account during the selected planning period). These accountwithdrawal actions may be further scaled to observe various constraintsand/or bounds (e.g., RMDs). For example, a set of constraints similar tothe following may be utilized:

Constraints: sum(withdrawals) − negative-asset-value-force = ATWD −other incomes RMD <= withdrawal <= account value where: ATWD may includeATWD constant and/or ATWD variable (e.g., the sum of ATWD constant andATWD variable)

A negative-asset-value-force cost for the selected planning period maybe calculated at 1129. In one embodiment, the negative-asset-value-forcecost for the selected planning period may be calculated using anegative-asset-value-force calculator component based on the action forthe selected planning period and information regardingnegative-asset-value-forces (e.g., account transaction fees, accountwithdrawal penalties, filing information). In one implementation, thenegative-asset-value-force cost for the selected planning period may becalculated using online API calls. In another implementation, thenegative-asset-value-force cost for the selected planning period may becalculated using a machine learning estimator.

A portfolio return for the selected planning period may be simulatedusing the market return simulator at 1133. In one embodiment, the marketreturn simulator may simulate an overall market return. In anotherembodiment, the market return simulator may simulate separate marketreturns for different asset types (e.g., equities, bonds, cash). In oneimplementation, each of the accounts may be analyzed using the simulatedmarket return(s) and/or a respective account's asset type allocationand/or the respective account's negative-asset-value-force cost tocalculate the respective account's holdings for the next planning period(e.g., t+1).

The current state may be updated for the next planning period at 1137.For example, account holdings for the next planning period may beupdated to reflect the calculated account holdings. In another example,user's age, planning year, and/or the like may be updated. In oneimplementation, a current state datastructure holding data regarding thecurrent state (e.g., having data fields similar to those discussed withregard to the initial_state field of the withdrawal policy optimizationrequest datastructure) may be updated (e.g., using PHP commands).

An optimized withdrawal policy datastructure may be provided at 1141.For example, the optimized withdrawal policy datastructure may beprovided to the user via a withdrawal policy optimization output. In oneembodiment, the optimized withdrawal policy datastructure may comprisethe set of optimized actions recommended by the agent network for theuser based on the market return simulator settings and the initial stateassociated with the user. In one implementation, the optimizedwithdrawal policy datastructure may comprise a set of period withdrawalpolicy datastructures, with each period withdrawal policy datastructurecomprising a set of optimized actions for a planning period (e.g.,year).

FIG. 12 shows non-limiting, example embodiments of implementationcase(s) for the MRLAPM. In FIG. 12 , exemplary market return paths areillustrated. At 1201, an example set of sample market return paths withspecified mean and standard deviation are shown. At 1205, an example setof sample predefined market return paths are shown.

FIG. 13 shows non-limiting, example embodiments of a screenshotillustrating user interface(s) of the MRLAPM. In FIG. 13 , an exemplaryuser interface (e.g., for a mobile device, for a website) for sending awithdrawal policy optimization input and obtaining an optimizedwithdrawal policy datastructure is illustrated. Screen 1301 shows that auser may utilize a set of client inputs widgets 1305 to specify marketreturn simulator settings and/or an initial state. The user may utilizea submit widget 1310 to send the withdrawal policy optimization input.The user may utilize a set of results widgets 1315 to view informationregarding provided optimized withdrawal policy. The user may utilize adownload results widget 1320 to obtain the optimized withdrawal policydatastructure (e.g., as an Excel spreadsheet).

Additional Alternative Embodiment Examples

The following alternative example embodiments provide a number ofvariations of some of the already discussed principles for expandedcolor on the abilities of the MRLAPM.

In some alternative embodiments, optimized withdrawal policyrecommendations provided by an actor network may be adjusted based onoptimal order parameters recommendations. For example, recommendationsregarding how account holdings should be adjusted may be provided.

In some alternative embodiments, information regarding how deviationfrom optimized withdrawal policy recommendations change output fromoptimal may be provided using the actor network. For example,information regarding what a user would lose by not using annuities maybe provided.

Additional embodiments may include:

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An artificial intelligence-based order optimization        recommendation engine generating apparatus, comprising:    -   at least one memory;    -   a component collection stored in the at least one memory;    -   at least one processor disposed in communication with the at        least one memory, the at least one processor executing        processor-executable instructions from the component collection,        the component collection storage structured with        processor-executable instructions, comprising:        -   obtain, via the at least one processor, a machine            learning (ML) training request datastructure, in which the            ML training request datastructure is structured to specify a            set of agent profile datastructures and an agent sample            ranking function, in which an agent profile datastructure is            structured to specify an agent's episodic holdings, trades            and cashflow data at a bucket level for a training period;        -   determine, via the at least one processor, an agent samples            range, in which the agent samples range is structured as a            set of subsequences of agents' episodic holdings, trades and            cashflow data;        -   generate, via the at least one processor, a set of inverse            reinforcement learning (IRL) training sample datastructures,            in which an IRL training sample datastructure is structured            to specify a pairwise comparison of rankings of a pair of            agents during a subsequence in the set of subsequences as            determined using the agent sample ranking function;        -   determine, via the at least one processor, a reward function            structure to use for inverse reinforcement learning;        -   determine, via the at least one processor, an optimal reward            function having the determined reward function structure            using an IRL technique on the set of IRL training sample            datastructures, in which the optimal reward function is            structured to have parameters that keep pairwise agent            ranking orders specified in the set of IRL training sample            datastructures;        -   determine, via the at least one processor, an optimal policy            using a reinforcement learning (RL) technique and the            optimal reward function, in which the optimal policy            provides trading recommendations based on current holdings            and an order constraint value; and        -   store, via the at least one processor, an optimal policy            datastructure, in which the optimal policy datastructure is            structured to specify a set of parameters that define the            structure of the optimal policy.    -   2. The apparatus of embodiment 1, in which an agent profile        datastructure of an agent is structured to correspond to a fund        trading profile of a fund.    -   3. The apparatus of embodiment 2, in which funds corresponding        to the set of agent profile datastructures utilize the same        benchmark portfolio as a fund performance benchmark.    -   4. The apparatus of embodiment 1, in which an agent's episodic        holdings, trades and cashflow data is for an episode length that        is one of: a day, a week, a month, a quarter, a year.    -   5. The apparatus of embodiment 1, in which a bucket is one of:        an individual stock, a sector, a portfolio.    -   6. The apparatus of embodiment 1, in which the training period        is one of: a month, a quarter, a year, a plurality of years.    -   7. The apparatus of embodiment 1, in which the agent sample        ranking function is one of: fund return, Sharpe ratio, Sortino        ratio.    -   8. The apparatus of embodiment 1, in which subsequences in the        set of subsequences are structured to have different subsequence        lengths.    -   9. The apparatus of embodiment 1, in which subsequences in the        set of subsequences are structured to have overlapping date        ranges.    -   10. The apparatus of embodiment 1, in which an IRL training        sample datastructure is structured to comprise: a tuple        specifying two agent-subsequence identifiers, and a binary value        specifying a pairwise agent ranking order associated with the        two agent-subsequence identifiers.    -   11. The apparatus of embodiment 1, in which the reward function        structure to use for inverse reinforcement learning is a        parametric T-REX function.    -   12. The apparatus of embodiment 11, in which the parametric        T-REX function is structured to have a set of four parameters        {ρ, η, λ, ω}.    -   13. The apparatus of embodiment 1, in which the IRL technique is        T-REX.    -   14. The apparatus of embodiment 1, in which the RL technique is        G-Learner.    -   15. The apparatus of embodiment 1, in which the set of        parameters that define the structure of the optimal policy        comprises three parameters ũ_(t), {tilde over (v)}_(t), {tilde        over (Σ)}_(p).    -   16. An artificial intelligence-based order optimization        recommendation engine generating processor-readable,        non-transient medium, the medium storing a component collection,        the component collection storage structured with        processor-executable instructions comprising:        -   obtain, via the at least one processor, a machine            learning (ML) training request datastructure, in which the            ML training request datastructure is structured to specify a            set of agent profile datastructures and an agent sample            ranking function, in which an agent profile datastructure is            structured to specify an agent's episodic holdings, trades            and cashflow data at a bucket level for a training period;        -   determine, via the at least one processor, an agent samples            range, in which the agent samples range is structured as a            set of subsequences of agents' episodic holdings, trades and            cashflow data;        -   generate, via the at least one processor, a set of inverse            reinforcement learning (IRL) training sample datastructures,            in which an IRL training sample datastructure is structured            to specify a pairwise comparison of rankings of a pair of            agents during a subsequence in the set of subsequences as            determined using the agent sample ranking function;        -   determine, via the at least one processor, a reward function            structure to use for inverse reinforcement learning;        -   determine, via the at least one processor, an optimal reward            function having the determined reward function structure            using an IRL technique on the set of IRL training sample            datastructures, in which the optimal reward function is            structured to have parameters that keep pairwise agent            ranking orders specified in the set of IRL training sample            datastructures;        -   determine, via the at least one processor, an optimal policy            using a reinforcement learning (RL) technique and the            optimal reward function, in which the optimal policy            provides trading recommendations based on current holdings            and an order constraint value; and        -   store, via the at least one processor, an optimal policy            datastructure, in which the optimal policy datastructure is            structured to specify a set of parameters that define the            structure of the optimal policy.    -   17. The medium of embodiment 16, in which an agent profile        datastructure of an agent is structured to correspond to a fund        trading profile of a fund.    -   18. The medium of embodiment 17, in which funds corresponding to        the set of agent profile datastructures utilize the same        benchmark portfolio as a fund performance benchmark.    -   19. The medium of embodiment 16, in which an agent's episodic        holdings, trades and cashflow data is for an episode length that        is one of: a day, a week, a month, a quarter, a year.    -   20. The medium of embodiment 16, in which a bucket is one of: an        individual stock, a sector, a portfolio.    -   21. The medium of embodiment 16, in which the training period is        one of: a month, a quarter, a year, a plurality of years.    -   22. The medium of embodiment 16, in which the agent sample        ranking function is one of: fund return, Sharpe ratio, Sortino        ratio.    -   23. The medium of embodiment 16, in which subsequences in the        set of subsequences are structured to have different subsequence        lengths.    -   24. The medium of embodiment 16, in which subsequences in the        set of subsequences are structured to have overlapping date        ranges.    -   25. The medium of embodiment 16, in which an IRL training sample        datastructure is structured to comprise: a tuple specifying two        agent-subsequence identifiers, and a binary value specifying a        pairwise agent ranking order associated with the two        agent-subsequence identifiers.    -   26. The medium of embodiment 16, in which the reward function        structure to use for inverse reinforcement learning is a        parametric T-REX function.    -   27. The medium of embodiment 26, in which the parametric T-REX        function is structured to have a set of four parameters {ρ, η,        λ, ω}.    -   28. The medium of embodiment 16, in which the IRL technique is        T-REX.    -   29. The medium of embodiment 16, in which the RL technique is        G-Learner.    -   30. The medium of embodiment 16, in which the set of parameters        that define the structure of the optimal policy comprises three        parameters ũ_(t), {tilde over (v)}_(t), {tilde over (Σ)}_(p).    -   31. An artificial intelligence-based order optimization        recommendation engine generating processor-implemented system,        comprising:    -   means to store a component collection;    -   means to process processor-executable instructions from the        component collection, the component collection storage        structured with processor-executable instructions including:        -   obtain, via the at least one processor, a machine            learning (ML) training request datastructure, in which the            ML training request datastructure is structured to specify a            set of agent profile datastructures and an agent sample            ranking function, in which an agent profile datastructure is            structured to specify an agent's episodic holdings, trades            and cashflow data at a bucket level for a training period;        -   determine, via the at least one processor, an agent samples            range, in which the agent samples range is structured as a            set of subsequences of agents' episodic holdings, trades and            cashflow data;        -   generate, via the at least one processor, a set of inverse            reinforcement learning (IRL) training sample datastructures,            in which an IRL training sample datastructure is structured            to specify a pairwise comparison of rankings of a pair of            agents during a subsequence in the set of subsequences as            determined using the agent sample ranking function;        -   determine, via the at least one processor, a reward function            structure to use for inverse reinforcement learning;        -   determine, via the at least one processor, an optimal reward            function having the determined reward function structure            using an IRL technique on the set of IRL training sample            datastructures, in which the optimal reward function is            structured to have parameters that keep pairwise agent            ranking orders specified in the set of IRL training sample            datastructures;        -   determine, via the at least one processor, an optimal policy            using a reinforcement learning (RL) technique and the            optimal reward function, in which the optimal policy            provides trading recommendations based on current holdings            and an order constraint value; and        -   store, via the at least one processor, an optimal policy            datastructure, in which the optimal policy datastructure is            structured to specify a set of parameters that define the            structure of the optimal policy.    -   32. The system of embodiment 31, in which an agent profile        datastructure of an agent is structured to correspond to a fund        trading profile of a fund.    -   33. The system of embodiment 32, in which funds corresponding to        the set of agent profile datastructures utilize the same        benchmark portfolio as a fund performance benchmark.    -   34. The system of embodiment 31, in which an agent's episodic        holdings, trades and cashflow data is for an episode length that        is one of: a day, a week, a month, a quarter, a year.    -   35. The system of embodiment 31, in which a bucket is one of: an        individual stock, a sector, a portfolio.    -   36. The system of embodiment 31, in which the training period is        one of: a month, a quarter, a year, a plurality of years.    -   37. The system of embodiment 31, in which the agent sample        ranking function is one of: fund return, Sharpe ratio, Sortino        ratio.    -   38. The system of embodiment 31, in which subsequences in the        set of subsequences are structured to have different subsequence        lengths.    -   39. The system of embodiment 31, in which subsequences in the        set of subsequences are structured to have overlapping date        ranges.    -   40. The system of embodiment 31, in which an IRE training sample        datastructure is structured to comprise: a tuple specifying two        agent-subsequence identifiers, and a binary value specifying a        pairwise agent ranking order associated with the two        agent-subsequence identifiers.    -   41. The system of embodiment 31, in which the reward function        structure to use for inverse reinforcement learning is a        parametric T-REX function.    -   42. The system of embodiment 41, in which the parametric T-REX        function is structured to have a set of four parameters {ρ, η,        λ, ω}.    -   43. The system of embodiment 31, in which the IRL technique is        T-REX.    -   44. The system of embodiment 31, in which the RL technique is        G-Learner.    -   45. The system of embodiment 31, in which the set of parameters        that define the structure of the optimal policy comprises three        parameters ũ_(t), {tilde over (v)}_(t), {tilde over (Σ)}_(p).    -   46. An artificial intelligence-based order optimization        recommendation engine generating processor-implemented process,        including processing processor-executable instructions via at        least one processor from a component collection stored in at        least one memory, the component collection storage structured        with processor-executable instructions comprising:        -   obtain, via the at least one processor, a machine            learning (ML) training request datastructure, in which the            ML training request datastructure is structured to specify a            set of agent profile datastructures and an agent sample            ranking function, in which an agent profile datastructure is            structured to specify an agent's episodic holdings, trades            and cashflow data at a bucket level for a training period;        -   determine, via the at least one processor, an agent samples            range, in which the agent samples range is structured as a            set of subsequences of agents' episodic holdings, trades and            cashflow data;        -   generate, via the at least one processor, a set of inverse            reinforcement learning (IRL) training sample datastructures,            in which an IRE training sample datastructure is structured            to specify a pairwise comparison of rankings of a pair of            agents during a subsequence in the set of subsequences as            determined using the agent sample ranking function;        -   determine, via the at least one processor, a reward function            structure to use for inverse reinforcement learning;        -   determine, via the at least one processor, an optimal reward            function having the determined reward function structure            using an IRL technique on the set of IRL training sample            datastructures, in which the optimal reward function is            structured to have parameters that keep pairwise agent            ranking orders specified in the set of IRL training sample            datastructures;        -   determine, via the at least one processor, an optimal policy            using a reinforcement learning (RL) technique and the            optimal reward function, in which the optimal policy            provides trading recommendations based on current holdings            and an order constraint value; and        -   store, via the at least one processor, an optimal policy            datastructure, in which the optimal policy datastructure is            structured to specify a set of parameters that define the            structure of the optimal policy.    -   47. The process of embodiment 46, in which an agent profile        datastructure of an agent is structured to correspond to a fund        trading profile of a fund.    -   48. The process of embodiment 47, in which funds corresponding        to the set of agent profile datastructures utilize the same        benchmark portfolio as a fund performance benchmark.    -   49. The process of embodiment 46, in which an agent's episodic        holdings, trades and cashflow data is for an episode length that        is one of: a day, a week, a month, a quarter, a year.    -   50. The process of embodiment 46, in which a bucket is one of:        an individual stock, a sector, a portfolio.    -   51. The process of embodiment 46, in which the training period        is one of: a month, a quarter, a year, a plurality of years.    -   52. The process of embodiment 46, in which the agent sample        ranking function is one of: fund return, Sharpe ratio, Sortino        ratio.    -   53. The process of embodiment 46, in which subsequences in the        set of subsequences are structured to have different subsequence        lengths.    -   54. The process of embodiment 46, in which subsequences in the        set of subsequences are structured to have overlapping date        ranges.    -   55. The process of embodiment 46, in which an IRL training        sample datastructure is structured to comprise: a tuple        specifying two agent-subsequence identifiers, and a binary value        specifying a pairwise agent ranking order associated with the        two agent-subsequence identifiers.    -   56. The process of embodiment 46, in which the reward function        structure to use for inverse reinforcement learning is a        parametric T-REX function.    -   57. The process of embodiment 56, in which the parametric T-REX        function is structured to have a set of four parameters {ρ, η,        λ, ω}.    -   58. The process of embodiment 46, in which the IRL technique is        T-REX.    -   59. The process of embodiment 46, in which the RL technique is        G-Learner.    -   60. The process of embodiment 46, in which the set of parameters        that define the structure of the optimal policy comprises three        parameters ũ_(t), {tilde over (v)}_(t), {tilde over (Σ)}_(p).    -   101. An artificial intelligence-based optimized withdrawal        policy recommendation engine generating apparatus, comprising:    -   at least one memory;    -   a component collection stored in the at least one memory;    -   at least one processor disposed in communication with the at        least one memory, the at least one processor executing        processor-executable instructions from the component collection,        the component collection storage structured with        processor-executable instructions, comprising:        -   obtain, via the at least one processor, a machine            learning (ML) training request datastructure, in which the            ML training request datastructure is structured to specify            an optimal policy reward function and a set of training            sample configuration datastructures, in which a training            sample configuration datastructure is structured to specify            an initial state comprising user information data fields,            accounts information data fields, and retirement information            data fields;        -   generate, via the at least one processor, a set of training            sample datastructures using the optimal policy reward            function and a specified training sample configuration            datastructure from the set of training sample configuration            datastructures, in which the instructions to generate a            training sample datastructure are structured as:            -   determine, via the at least one processor, a current                state associated with the specified training sample                configuration datastructure for a current planning                period, in which the current state is the initial state                associated with the specified training sample                configuration datastructure for an initial planning                period, and an updated state for subsequent planning                periods;            -   determine, via the at least one processor, an action for                the current planning period using an actor network, in                which the action is a withdrawal policy for a set of                user accounts, in which the actor network takes the                current state as input and outputs the withdrawal policy                for the current planning period;            -   calculate, via the at least one processor, a                negative-asset-value-force cost for the current planning                period based on the action for the current planning                period;            -   determine, via the at least one processor, a reward                value for the current planning period using the optimal                policy reward function; and            -   store, via the at least one processor, the current                state, the action for the current planning period, and                the reward value as data fields of the training sample                datastructure;        -   determine, via the at least one processor, an optimal policy            using a reinforcement learning (RL) technique and the            generated set of training sample datastructures, in which            the optimal policy provides optimized withdrawal policy            recommendations based on a provided initial state; and        -   store, via the at least one processor, an optimal policy            datastructure, in which the optimal policy datastructure is            structured to specify a set of parameters that define the            structure of the optimal policy.    -   102. The apparatus of embodiment 101, in which the optimal        policy reward function is structured to specify an intermedia        year reward function and a final year reward function.    -   103. The apparatus of embodiment 102, in which the final year        reward function is structured to specify a bequest reward        function.    -   104. The apparatus of embodiment 101, in which the user        information data fields comprise: user age and user location.    -   105. The apparatus of embodiment 101, in which the accounts        information data fields comprise: account type and account        holdings for the set of user accounts.    -   106. The apparatus of embodiment 101, in which the retirement        information data fields comprise: retirement year, planning        horizon, and constant periodic withdrawal amount.    -   107. The apparatus of embodiment 106, in which the retirement        information data fields further comprise at least one of:        variable periodic withdrawal amount, bequest amount.    -   108. The apparatus of embodiment 101, in which an initial state        further comprises incomes information data fields, and in which        the incomes information data fields comprise: periodic income        amount and income date range for a set of user incomes.    -   109. The apparatus of embodiment 101, in which the ML training        request datastructure is structured to specify market return        simulator settings data fields.    -   110. The apparatus of embodiment 101, in which the        negative-asset-value-force cost for the current planning period        is calculated using a set of online API calls.    -   111. The apparatus of embodiment 101, in which the        negative-asset-value-force cost for the current planning period        is calculated using a machine learning estimator.    -   112. The apparatus of embodiment 101, in which the reward value        for the current planning period is determined by evaluating the        withdrawal policy for the current planning period adjusted by        the negative-asset-value-force cost for the current planning        period.    -   113. The apparatus of embodiment 101, in which the instructions        to generate the training sample datastructure are further        structured as:        -   calculate, via the at least one processor, account holdings            for the set of user accounts for the next planning period            based on a simulated portfolio return for the current            planning period; and        -   update, via the at least one processor, the current state            using the calculated account holdings for the set of user            accounts for the next planning period.    -   114. The apparatus of embodiment 101, in which the RL technique        is Proximal Policy Optimization.    -   115. The apparatus of embodiment 114, in which the set of        parameters that define the structure of the optimal policy        comprises: network structure and weights for each layer of an        actor network.    -   116. An artificial intelligence-based optimized withdrawal        policy recommendation engine generating processor-readable,        non-transient medium, the medium storing a component collection,        the component collection storage structured with        processor-executable instructions comprising:        -   obtain, via the at least one processor, a machine            learning (ML) training request datastructure, in which the            ML training request datastructure is structured to specify            an optimal policy reward function and a set of training            sample configuration datastructures, in which a training            sample configuration datastructure is structured to specify            an initial state comprising user information data fields,            accounts information data fields, and retirement information            data fields;        -   generate, via the at least one processor, a set of training            sample datastructures using the optimal policy reward            function and a specified training sample configuration            datastructure from the set of training sample configuration            datastructures, in which the instructions to generate a            training sample datastructure are structured as:            -   determine, via the at least one processor, a current                state associated with the specified training sample                configuration datastructure for a current planning                period, in which the current state is the initial state                associated with the specified training sample                configuration datastructure for an initial planning                period, and an updated state for subsequent planning                periods;            -   determine, via the at least one processor, an action for                the current planning period using an actor network, in                which the action is a withdrawal policy for a set of                user accounts, in which the actor network takes the                current state as input and outputs the withdrawal policy                for the current planning period;            -   calculate, via the at least one processor, a                negative-asset-value-force cost for the current planning                period based on the action for the current planning                period;            -   determine, via the at least one processor, a reward                value for the current planning period using the optimal                policy reward function; and            -   store, via the at least one processor, the current                state, the action for the current planning period, and                the reward value as data fields of the training sample                datastructure;        -   determine, via the at least one processor, an optimal policy            using a reinforcement learning (RL) technique and the            generated set of training sample datastructures, in which            the optimal policy provides optimized withdrawal policy            recommendations based on a provided initial state; and        -   store, via the at least one processor, an optimal policy            datastructure, in which the optimal policy datastructure is            structured to specify a set of parameters that define the            structure of the optimal policy.    -   117. The medium of embodiment 116, in which the optimal policy        reward function is structured to specify an intermedia year        reward function and a final year reward function.    -   118. The medium of embodiment 117, in which the final year        reward function is structured to specify a bequest reward        function.    -   119. The medium of embodiment 116, in which the user information        data fields comprise: user age and user location.    -   120. The medium of embodiment 116, in which the accounts        information data fields comprise: account type and account        holdings for the set of user accounts.    -   121. The medium of embodiment 116, in which the retirement        information data fields comprise: retirement year, planning        horizon, and constant periodic withdrawal amount.    -   122. The medium of embodiment 121, in which the retirement        information data fields further comprise at least one of:        variable periodic withdrawal amount, bequest amount.    -   123. The medium of embodiment 116, in which an initial state        further comprises incomes information data fields, and in which        the incomes information data fields comprise: periodic income        amount and income date range for a set of user incomes.    -   124. The medium of embodiment 116, in which the ML training        request datastructure is structured to specify market return        simulator settings data fields.    -   125. The medium of embodiment 116, in which the        negative-asset-value-force cost for the current planning period        is calculated using a set of online API calls.    -   126. The medium of embodiment 116, in which the        negative-asset-value-force cost for the current planning period        is calculated using a machine learning estimator.    -   127. The medium of embodiment 116, in which the reward value for        the current planning period is determined by evaluating the        withdrawal policy for the current planning period adjusted by        the negative-asset-value-force cost for the current planning        period.    -   128. The medium of embodiment 116, in which the instructions to        generate the training sample datastructure are further        structured as:        -   calculate, via the at least one processor, account holdings            for the set of user accounts for the next planning period            based on a simulated portfolio return for the current            planning period; and        -   update, via the at least one processor, the current state            using the calculated account holdings for the set of user            accounts for the next planning period.    -   129. The medium of embodiment 116, in which the RL technique is        Proximal Policy Optimization.    -   130. The medium of embodiment 129, in which the set of        parameters that define the structure of the optimal policy        comprises: network structure and weights for each layer of an        actor network.    -   131. An artificial intelligence-based optimized withdrawal        policy recommendation engine generating processor-implemented        system, comprising:    -   means to store a component collection;    -   means to process processor-executable instructions from the        component collection, the component collection storage        structured with processor-executable instructions including:        -   obtain, via the at least one processor, a machine            learning (ML) training request datastructure, in which the            ML training request datastructure is structured to specify            an optimal policy reward function and a set of training            sample configuration datastructures, in which a training            sample configuration datastructure is structured to specify            an initial state comprising user information data fields,            accounts information data fields, and retirement information            data fields;        -   generate, via the at least one processor, a set of training            sample datastructures using the optimal policy reward            function and a specified training sample configuration            datastructure from the set of training sample configuration            datastructures, in which the instructions to generate a            training sample datastructure are structured as:            -   determine, via the at least one processor, a current                state associated with the specified training sample                configuration datastructure for a current planning                period, in which the current state is the initial state                associated with the specified training sample                configuration datastructure for an initial planning                period, and an updated state for subsequent planning                periods;            -   determine, via the at least one processor, an action for                the current planning period using an actor network, in                which the action is a withdrawal policy for a set of                user accounts, in which the actor network takes the                current state as input and outputs the withdrawal policy                for the current planning period;            -   calculate, via the at least one processor, a                negative-asset-value-force cost for the current planning                period based on the action for the current planning                period;            -   determine, via the at least one processor, a reward                value for the current planning period using the optimal                policy reward function; and            -   store, via the at least one processor, the current                state, the action for the current planning period, and                the reward value as data fields of the training sample                datastructure;        -   determine, via the at least one processor, an optimal policy            using a reinforcement learning (RL) technique and the            generated set of training sample datastructures, in which            the optimal policy provides optimized withdrawal policy            recommendations based on a provided initial state; and        -   store, via the at least one processor, an optimal policy            datastructure, in which the optimal policy datastructure is            structured to specify a set of parameters that define the            structure of the optimal policy.    -   132. The system of embodiment 131, in which the optimal policy        reward function is structured to specify an intermedia year        reward function and a final year reward function.    -   133. The system of embodiment 132, in which the final year        reward function is structured to specify a bequest reward        function.    -   134. The system of embodiment 131, in which the user information        data fields comprise: user age and user location.    -   135. The system of embodiment 131, in which the accounts        information data fields comprise: account type and account        holdings for the set of user accounts.    -   136. The system of embodiment 131, in which the retirement        information data fields comprise: retirement year, planning        horizon, and constant periodic withdrawal amount.    -   137. The system of embodiment 136, in which the retirement        information data fields further comprise at least one of:        variable periodic withdrawal amount, bequest amount.    -   138. The system of embodiment 131, in which an initial state        further comprises incomes information data fields, and in which        the incomes information data fields comprise: periodic income        amount and income date range for a set of user incomes.    -   139. The system of embodiment 131, in which the ML training        request datastructure is structured to specify market return        simulator settings data fields.    -   140. The system of embodiment 131, in which the        negative-asset-value-force cost for the current planning period        is calculated using a set of online API calls.    -   141. The system of embodiment 131, in which the        negative-asset-value-force cost for the current planning period        is calculated using a machine learning estimator.    -   142. The system of embodiment 131, in which the reward value for        the current planning period is determined by evaluating the        withdrawal policy for the current planning period adjusted by        the negative-asset-value-force cost for the current planning        period.    -   143. The system of embodiment 131, in which the instructions to        generate the training sample datastructure are further        structured as:        -   calculate, via the at least one processor, account holdings            for the set of user accounts for the next planning period            based on a simulated portfolio return for the current            planning period; and        -   update, via the at least one processor, the current state            using the calculated account holdings for the set of user            accounts for the next planning period.    -   144. The system of embodiment 131, in which the RL technique is        Proximal Policy Optimization.    -   145. The system of embodiment 144, in which the set of        parameters that define the structure of the optimal policy        comprises: network structure and weights for each layer of an        actor network.    -   146. An artificial intelligence-based optimized withdrawal        policy recommendation engine generating processor-implemented        process, including processing processor-executable instructions        via at least one processor from a component collection stored in        at least one memory, the component collection storage structured        with processor-executable instructions comprising:        -   obtain, via the at least one processor, a machine            learning (ML) training request datastructure, in which the            ML training request datastructure is structured to specify            an optimal policy reward function and a set of training            sample configuration datastructures, in which a training            sample configuration datastructure is structured to specify            an initial state comprising user information data fields,            accounts information data fields, and retirement information            data fields;        -   generate, via the at least one processor, a set of training            sample datastructures using the optimal policy reward            function and a specified training sample configuration            datastructure from the set of training sample configuration            datastructures, in which the instructions to generate a            training sample datastructure are structured as:            -   determine, via the at least one processor, a current                state associated with the specified training sample                configuration datastructure for a current planning                period, in which the current state is the initial state                associated with the specified training sample                configuration datastructure for an initial planning                period, and an updated state for subsequent planning                periods;            -   determine, via the at least one processor, an action for                the current planning period using an actor network, in                which the action is a withdrawal policy for a set of                user accounts, in which the actor network takes the                current state as input and outputs the withdrawal policy                for the current planning period;            -   calculate, via the at least one processor, a                negative-asset-value-force cost for the current planning                period based on the action for the current planning                period;            -   determine, via the at least one processor, a reward                value for the current planning period using the optimal                policy reward function; and            -   store, via the at least one processor, the current                state, the action for the current planning period, and                the reward value as data fields of the training sample                datastructure;        -   determine, via the at least one processor, an optimal policy            using a reinforcement learning (RL) technique and the            generated set of training sample datastructures, in which            the optimal policy provides optimized withdrawal policy            recommendations based on a provided initial state; and        -   store, via the at least one processor, an optimal policy            datastructure, in which the optimal policy datastructure is            structured to specify a set of parameters that define the            structure of the optimal policy.    -   147. The process of embodiment 146, in which the optimal policy        reward function is structured to specify an intermedia year        reward function and a final year reward function.    -   148. The process of embodiment 147, in which the final year        reward function is structured to specify a bequest reward        function.    -   149. The process of embodiment 146, in which the user        information data fields comprise: user age and user location.    -   150. The process of embodiment 146, in which the accounts        information data fields comprise: account type and account        holdings for the set of user accounts.    -   151. The process of embodiment 146, in which the retirement        information data fields comprise: retirement year, planning        horizon, and constant periodic withdrawal amount.    -   152. The process of embodiment 151, in which the retirement        information data fields further comprise at least one of:        variable periodic withdrawal amount, bequest amount.    -   153. The process of embodiment 146, in which an initial state        further comprises incomes information data fields, and in which        the incomes information data fields comprise: periodic income        amount and income date range for a set of user incomes.    -   154. The process of embodiment 146, in which the ML training        request datastructure is structured to specify market return        simulator settings data fields.    -   155. The process of embodiment 146, in which the        negative-asset-value-force cost for the current planning period        is calculated using a set of online API calls.    -   156. The process of embodiment 146, in which the        negative-asset-value-force cost for the current planning period        is calculated using a machine learning estimator.    -   157. The process of embodiment 146, in which the reward value        for the current planning period is determined by evaluating the        withdrawal policy for the current planning period adjusted by        the negative-asset-value-force cost for the current planning        period.    -   158. The process of embodiment 146, in which the instructions to        generate the training sample datastructure are further        structured as:        -   calculate, via the at least one processor, account holdings            for the set of user accounts for the next planning period            based on a simulated portfolio return for the current            planning period; and        -   update, via the at least one processor, the current state            using the calculated account holdings for the set of user            accounts for the next planning period.    -   159. The process of embodiment 146, in which the RL technique is        Proximal Policy Optimization.    -   160. The process of embodiment 159, in which the set of        parameters that define the structure of the optimal policy        comprises: network structure and weights for each layer of an        actor network.

MRLAPM Controller

FIG. 14 shows a block diagram illustrating non-limiting, exampleembodiments of a MRLAPM controller. In this embodiment, the MRLAPMcontroller 1401 may serve to aggregate, process, store, search, serve,identify, instruct, generate, match, and/or facilitate interactions witha computer through machine learning and database systems technologies,and/or other related data.

Users, which may be people and/or other systems, may engage informationtechnology systems (e.g., computers) to facilitate informationprocessing. In turn, computers employ processors to process information;such processors 1403 may be referred to as central processing units(CPU). One form of processor is referred to as a microprocessor. CPUsuse communicative circuits to pass binary encoded signals acting asinstructions to allow various operations. These instructions may beoperational and/or data instructions containing and/or referencing otherinstructions and data in various processor accessible and operable areasof memory 1429 (e.g., registers, cache memory, random access memory,etc.). Such communicative instructions may be stored and/or transmittedin batches (e.g., batches of instructions) as programs and/or datacomponents to facilitate desired operations. These stored instructioncodes, e.g., programs, may engage the CPU circuit components and othermotherboard and/or system components to perform desired operations. Onetype of program is a computer operating system, which, may be executedby CPU on a computer; the operating system facilitates users to accessand operate computer information technology and resources. Someresources that may be employed in information technology systemsinclude: input and output mechanisms through which data may pass intoand out of a computer; memory storage into which data may be saved; andprocessors by which information may be processed. These informationtechnology systems may be used to collect data for later retrieval,analysis, and manipulation, which may be facilitated through a databaseprogram. These information technology systems provide interfaces thatallow users to access and operate various system components.

In one embodiment, the MRLAPM controller 1401 may be connected to and/orcommunicate with entities such as, but not limited to: one or more usersfrom peripheral devices 1412 (e.g., user input devices 1411); anoptional cryptographic processor device 1428; and/or a communicationsnetwork 1413.

Networks comprise the interconnection and interoperation of clients,servers, and intermediary nodes in a graph topology. It should be notedthat the term “server” as used throughout this application refersgenerally to a computer, other device, program, or combination thereofthat processes and responds to the requests of remote users across acommunications network. Servers serve their information to requesting“clients.” The term “client” as used herein refers generally to acomputer, program, other device, user and/or combination thereof that iscapable of processing and making requests and obtaining and processingany responses from servers across a communications network. A computer,other device, program, or combination thereof that facilitates,processes information and requests, and/or furthers the passage ofinformation from a source user to a destination user is referred to as a“node.” Networks are generally thought to facilitate the transfer ofinformation from source points to destinations. A node specificallytasked with furthering the passage of information from a source to adestination is called a “router.” There are many forms of networks suchas Local Area Networks (LANs), Pico networks, Wide Area Networks (WANs),Wireless Networks (WLANs), etc. For example, the Internet is, generally,an interconnection of a multitude of networks whereby remote clients andservers may access and interoperate with one another.

The MRLAPM controller 1401 may be based on computer systems that maycomprise, but are not limited to, components such as: a computersystemization 1402 connected to memory 1429.

Computer Systemization

A computer systemization 1402 may comprise a clock 1430, centralprocessing unit (“CPU(s)” and/or “processor(s)” (these terms are usedinterchangeably throughout the disclosure unless noted to the contrary))1403, a memory 1429 (e.g., a read only memory (ROM) 1406, a randomaccess memory (RAM) 1405, etc.), and/or an interface bus 1407, and mostfrequently, although not necessarily, are all interconnected and/orcommunicating through a system bus 1404 on one or more (mother)board(s)1402 having conductive and/or otherwise transportive circuit pathwaysthrough which instructions (e.g., binary encoded signals) may travel toeffectuate communications, operations, storage, etc. The computersystemization may be connected to a power source 1486; e.g., optionallythe power source may be internal. Optionally, a cryptographic processor1426 may be connected to the system bus. In another embodiment, thecryptographic processor, transceivers (e.g., ICs) 1474, and/or sensorarray (e.g., accelerometer, altimeter, ambient light, barometer, globalpositioning system (GPS) (thereby allowing MRLAPM controller todetermine its location), gyroscope, magnetometer, pedometer, proximity,ultra-violet sensor, etc.) 1473 may be connected as either internaland/or external peripheral devices 1412 via the interface bus I/O 1408(not pictured) and/or directly via the interface bus 1407. In turn, thetransceivers may be connected to antenna(s) 1475, thereby effectuatingwireless transmission and reception of various communication and/orsensor protocols; for example the antenna(s) may connect to varioustransceiver chipsets (depending on deployment needs), including:Broadcom® BCM4329FKUBG transceiver chip (e.g., providing 802.11n,Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, FM, etc.); a Broadcom® BCM4752 GPS receiver withaccelerometer, altimeter, GPS, gyroscope, magnetometer; a Broadcom®BCM4335 transceiver chip (e.g., providing 2G, 3G, and 4G long-termevolution (LTE) cellular communications; 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.0 lowenergy (LE) (e.g., beacon features)); a Broadcom® BCM43341 transceiverchip (e.g., providing 2G, 3G and 4G LTE cellular communications;802.11g/, Bluetooth 4.0, near field communication (NFC), FM radio); anInfineon Technologies® X-Gold 618-PMB9800 transceiver chip (e.g.,providing 2G/3G HSDPA/HSUPA communications); a MediaTek® MT6620transceiver chip (e.g., providing 802.11a/ac/b/g/n (also known as WiFiin numerous iterations), Bluetooth 4.0 LE, FM, GPS; a LapisSemiconductor® ML8511 UV sensor; a maxim integrated MAX44000 ambientlight and infrared proximity sensor; a Texas Instruments® WiLink WL1283transceiver chip (e.g., providing 802.11n, Bluetooth 3.0, FM, GPS);and/or the like. The system clock may have a crystal oscillator andgenerates a base signal through the computer systemization's circuitpathways. The clock may be coupled to the system bus and various clockmultipliers that will increase or decrease the base operating frequencyfor other components interconnected in the computer systemization. Theclock and various components in a computer systemization drive signalsembodying information throughout the system. Such transmission andreception of instructions embodying information throughout a computersystemization may be referred to as communications. These communicativeinstructions may further be transmitted, received, and the cause ofreturn and/or reply communications beyond the instant computersystemization to: communications networks, input devices, other computersystemizations, peripheral devices, and/or the like. It should beunderstood that in alternative embodiments, any of the above componentsmay be connected directly to one another, connected to the CPU, and/ororganized in numerous variations employed as exemplified by variouscomputer systems.

The CPU comprises at least one high-speed data processor adequate toexecute program components for executing user and/or system-generatedrequests. The CPU is often packaged in a number of formats varying fromlarge supercomputer(s) and mainframe(s) computers, down to minicomputers, servers, desktop computers, laptops, thin clients (e.g.,Chromebooks®), netbooks, tablets (e.g., Android®, iPads®, and Windows®tablets, etc.), mobile smartphones (e.g., Android®, iPhones®, Nokia®,Palm® and Windows® phones, etc.), wearable device(s) (e.g., headsets(e.g., Apple AirPods (Pro)®, glasses, goggles (e.g., Google Glass®),watches, etc.), and/or the like. Often, the processors themselves willincorporate various specialized processing units, such as, but notlimited to: integrated system (bus) controllers, memory managementcontrol units, floating point units, and even specialized processingsub-units like graphics processing units, digital signal processingunits, and/or the like. Additionally, processors may include internalfast access addressable memory, and be capable of mapping and addressingmemory 1429 beyond the processor itself; internal memory may include,but is not limited to: fast registers, various levels of cache memory(e.g., level 1, 2, 3, etc.), (dynamic/static) RAM, solid state memory,etc. The processor may access this memory through the use of a memoryaddress space that is accessible via instruction address, which theprocessor can construct and decode allowing it to access a circuit pathto a specific memory address space having a memory state. The CPU may bea microprocessor such as: AMD's Athlon®, Duron® and/or Opteron®;Apple's® A series of processors (e.g., A5, A6, A7, A8, etc.); ARM's®application, embedded and secure processors; IBM® and/or Motorola'sDragonBall® and PowerPC®; IBM's® and Sony's® Cell processor; Intel's®80X86 series (e.g., 80386, 80486), Pentium®, Celeron®, Core (2) Duo®, iseries (e.g., i3, i5, i7, i9, etc.), Itanium®, Xeon®, and/or XScale®;Motorola's® 680X0 series (e.g., 68020, 68030, 68040, etc.); and/or thelike processor(s). The CPU interacts with memory through instructionpassing through conductive and/or transportive conduits (e.g., (printed)electronic and/or optic circuits) to execute stored instructions (i.e.,program code), e.g., via load/read address commands; e.g., the CPU mayread processor issuable instructions from memory (e.g., reading it froma component collection (e.g., an interpreted and/or compiled programapplication/library including allowing the processor to executeinstructions from the application/library) stored in the memory). Suchinstruction passing facilitates communication within the MRLAPMcontroller and beyond through various interfaces. Should processingrequirements dictate a greater amount speed and/or capacity, distributedprocessors (e.g., see Distributed MRLAPM below), mainframe, multi-core,parallel, and/or super-computer architectures may similarly be employed.Alternatively, should deployment requirements dictate greaterportability, smaller mobile devices (e.g., Personal Digital Assistants(PDAs)) may be employed.

Depending on the particular implementation, features of the MRLAPM maybe achieved by implementing a microcontroller such as CAST's® R8051XC2microcontroller; Diligent's® Basys 3 Artix-7, Nexys A7-100T,U192015125IT, etc.; Intel's® MCS 51 (i.e., 8051 microcontroller); and/orthe like. Also, to implement certain features of the MRLAPM, somefeature implementations may rely on embedded components, such as:Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (“ASIC”), Digital SignalProcessing (“DSP”), Field Programmable Gate Array (“FPGA”), and/or thelike embedded technology. For example, any of the MRLAPM componentcollection (distributed or otherwise) and/or features may be implementedvia the microprocessor and/or via embedded components; e.g., via ASIC,coprocessor, DSP, FPGA, and/or the like. Alternately, someimplementations of the MRLAPM may be implemented with embeddedcomponents that are configured and used to achieve a variety of featuresor signal processing.

Depending on the particular implementation, the embedded components mayinclude software solutions, hardware solutions, and/or some combinationof both hardware/software solutions. For example, MRLAPM featuresdiscussed herein may be achieved through implementing FPGAs, which are asemiconductor devices containing programmable logic components called“logic blocks”, and programmable interconnects, such as the highperformance FPGA Virtex® series and/or the low cost Spartan® seriesmanufactured by Xilinx®. Logic blocks and interconnects can beprogrammed by the customer or designer, after the FPGA is manufactured,to implement any of the MRLAPM features. A hierarchy of programmableinterconnects allow logic blocks to be interconnected as needed by theMRLAPM system designer/administrator, somewhat like a one-chipprogrammable breadboard. An FPGA's logic blocks can be programmed toperform the operation of basic logic gates such as AND, and XOR, or morecomplex combinational operators such as decoders or mathematicaloperations. In most FPGAs, the logic blocks also include memoryelements, which may be circuit flip-flops or more complete blocks ofmemory. In some circumstances, the MRLAPM may be developed on FPGAs andthen migrated into a fixed version that more resembles ASICimplementations. Alternate or coordinating implementations may migrateMRLAPM controller features to a final ASIC instead of or in addition toFPGAs. Depending on the implementation all of the aforementionedembedded components and microprocessors may be considered the “CPU”and/or “processor” for the MRLAPM.

Power Source

The power source 1486 may be of any various form for powering smallelectronic circuit board devices such as the following power cellsalkaline, lithium hydride, lithium ion, lithium polymer, nickel cadmium,solar cells, and/or the like. Other types of AC or DC power sources maybe used as well. In the case of solar cells, in one embodiment, the caseprovides an aperture through which the solar cell may capture photonicenergy. The power cell 1486 is connected to at least one of theinterconnected subsequent components of the MRLAPM thereby providing anelectric current to all subsequent components. In one example, the powersource 1486 is connected to the system bus component 1404. In analternative embodiment, an outside power source 1486 is provided througha connection across the I/O 1408 interface. For example, Ethernet (withpower on Ethernet), IEEE 1394, USB and/or the like connections carryboth data and power across the connection and is therefore a suitablesource of power.

Interface Adapters

Interface bus(ses) 1407 may accept, connect, and/or communicate to anumber of interface adapters, variously although not necessarily in theform of adapter cards, such as but not limited to: input outputinterfaces (I/O) 1408, storage interfaces 1409, network interfaces 1410,and/or the like. Optionally, cryptographic processor interfaces 1427similarly may be connected to the interface bus. The interface busprovides for the communications of interface adapters with one anotheras well as with other components of the computer systemization.Interface adapters are adapted for a compatible interface bus. Interfaceadapters variously connect to the interface bus via a slot architecture.Various slot architectures may be employed, such as, but not limited to:Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP), Card Bus, (Extended) Industry StandardArchitecture ((E)ISA), Micro Channel Architecture (MCA), NuBus,Peripheral Component Interconnect (Extended) (PCI(X)), PCI Express,Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA), and/orthe like.

Storage interfaces 1409 may accept, communicate, and/or connect to anumber of storage devices such as, but not limited to: (removable)storage devices 1414, removable disc devices, and/or the like. Storageinterfaces may employ connection protocols such as, but not limited to:(Ultra) (Serial) Advanced Technology Attachment (Packet Interface)((Ultra) (Serial) ATA(PI)), (Enhanced) Integrated Drive Electronics((E)IDE), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1394,fiber channel, Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) Express (NVMe), Small ComputerSystems Interface (SCSI), Thunderbolt, Universal Serial Bus (USB),and/or the like.

Network interfaces 1410 may accept, communicate, and/or connect to acommunications network 1413. Through a communications network 1413, theMRLAPM controller is accessible through remote clients 1433 b (e.g.,computers with web browsers) by users 1433 a. Network interfaces mayemploy connection protocols such as, but not limited to: direct connect,Ethernet (thick, thin, twisted pair 10/100/1000/10000 Base T, and/or thelike), Token Ring, wireless connection such as IEEE 802.11a-x, and/orthe like. Should processing requirements dictate a greater amount speedand/or capacity, distributed network controllers (e.g., see DistributedMRLAPM below), architectures may similarly be employed to pool, loadbalance, and/or otherwise decrease/increase the communicative bandwidthrequired by the MRLAPM controller. A communications network may be anyone and/or the combination of the following: a direct interconnection;the Internet; Interplanetary Internet (e.g., Coherent File DistributionProtocol (CFDP), Space Communications Protocol Specifications (SCPS),etc.); a Local Area Network (LAN); a Metropolitan Area Network (MAN); anOperating Missions as Nodes on the Internet (OMNI); a secured customconnection; a Wide Area Network (WAN); a wireless network (e.g.,employing protocols such as, but not limited to a cellular, WiFi,Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), I-mode, and/or the like); and/orthe like. A network interface may be regarded as a specialized form ofan input output interface. Further, multiple network interfaces 1410 maybe used to engage with various communications network types 1413. Forexample, multiple network interfaces may be employed to allow for thecommunication over broadcast, multicast, and/or unicast networks.

Input Output interfaces (I/O) 1408 may accept, communicate, and/orconnect to user, peripheral devices 1412 (e.g., input devices 1411),cryptographic processor devices 1428, and/or the like. I/O may employconnection protocols such as, but not limited to: audio: analog,digital, monaural, RCA, stereo, and/or the like; data: Apple Desktop Bus(ADB), IEEE 1394a-b, serial, universal serial bus (USB); infrared;joystick; keyboard; midi; optical; PC AT; PS/2; parallel; radio; touchinterfaces: capacitive, optical, resistive, etc. displays; videointerface: Apple Desktop Connector (ADC), BNC, coaxial, component,composite, digital, Digital Visual Interface (DVI), (mini) displayport,high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI), RCA, RF antennae, S-Video,Thunderbolt/USB-C, VGA, and/or the like; wireless transceivers:802.11a/ac/b/g/n/x; Bluetooth; cellular (e.g., code division multipleaccess (CDMA), high speed packet access (HSPA(+)), high-speed downlinkpacket access (HSDPA), global system for mobile communications (GSM),long term evolution (LTE), WiMax, etc.); and/or the like. One outputdevice may include a video display, which may comprise a Cathode RayTube (CRT), Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), Light-Emitting Diode (LED),Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED), and/or the like based monitor withan interface (e.g., HDMI circuitry and cable) that accepts signals froma video interface, may be used. The video interface compositesinformation generated by a computer systemization and generates videosignals based on the composited information in a video memory frame.Another output device is a television set, which accepts signals from avideo interface. The video interface provides the composited videoinformation through a video connection interface that accepts a videodisplay interface (e.g., an RCA composite video connector accepting anRCA composite video cable; a DVI connector accepting a DVI displaycable, etc.).

Peripheral devices 1412 may be connected and/or communicate to I/Oand/or other facilities of the like such as network interfaces, storageinterfaces, directly to the interface bus, system bus, the CPU, and/orthe like. Peripheral devices may be external, internal and/or part ofthe MRLAPM controller. Peripheral devices may include: antenna, audiodevices (e.g., line-in, line-out, microphone input, speakers, etc.),cameras (e.g., gesture (e.g., Microsoft Kinect) detection, motiondetection, still, video, webcam, etc.), dongles (e.g., for copyprotection ensuring secure transactions with a digital signature, asconnection/format adaptors, and/or the like), external processors (foradded capabilities; e.g., crypto devices 528), force-feedback devices(e.g., vibrating motors), infrared (IR) transceiver, network interfaces,printers, scanners, sensors/sensor arrays and peripheral extensions(e.g., ambient light, GPS, gyroscopes, proximity, temperature, etc.),storage devices, transceivers (e.g., cellular, GPS, etc.), video devices(e.g., goggles, monitors, etc.), video sources, visors, and/or the like.Peripheral devices often include types of input devices (e.g., cameras).

User input devices 1411 often are a type of peripheral device 512 (seeabove) and may include: accelerometers, cameras, card readers, dongles,finger print readers, gloves, graphics tablets, joysticks, keyboards,microphones, mouse (mice), remote controls, security/biometric devices(e.g., facial identifiers, fingerprint reader, iris reader, retinareader, etc.), styluses, touch screens (e.g., capacitive, resistive,etc.), trackballs, trackpads, watches, and/or the like.

It should be noted that although user input devices and peripheraldevices may be employed, the MRLAPM controller may be embodied as anembedded, dedicated, and/or monitor-less (i.e., headless) device, andaccess may be provided over a network interface connection.

Cryptographic units such as, but not limited to, microcontrollers,processors 1426, interfaces 1427, and/or devices 1428 may be attached,and/or communicate with the MRLAPM controller. A MC68HC16microcontroller, manufactured by Motorola, Inc.®, may be used for and/orwithin cryptographic units. The MC68HC16 microcontroller utilizes a16-bit multiply-and-accumulate instruction in the 16 MHz configurationand requires less than one second to perform a 512-bit RSA private keyoperation. Cryptographic units support the authentication ofcommunications from interacting agents, as well as allowing foranonymous transactions. Cryptographic units may also be configured aspart of the CPU. Equivalent microcontrollers and/or processors may alsobe used. Other specialized cryptographic processors include: Broadcom's®CryptoNetX and other Security Processors; nCipher's® nShield; SafeNet's®Luna PCI (e.g., 7100) series; Semaphore Communications'® 40 MHzRoadrunner 184; Sun's® Cryptographic Accelerators (e.g., Accelerator6000 PCIe Board, Accelerator 500 Daughtercard); Via Nano® Processor(e.g., L2100, L2200, U2400) line, which is capable of performing500+MB/s of cryptographic instructions; VLSI Technology's® 33 MHz 6868;and/or the like.

Memory

Generally, any mechanization and/or embodiment allowing a processor toaffect the storage and/or retrieval of information is regarded as memory1429. The storing of information in memory may result in a physicalalteration of the memory to have a different physical state that makesthe memory a structure with a unique encoding of the memory storedtherein. Often, memory is a fungible technology and resource, thus, anynumber of memory embodiments may be employed in lieu of or in concertwith one another. It is to be understood that the MRLAPM controllerand/or a computer systemization may employ various forms of memory 1429.For example, a computer systemization may be configured to have theoperation of on-chip CPU memory (e.g., registers), RAM, ROM, and anyother storage devices performed by a paper punch tape or paper punchcard mechanism; however, such an embodiment would result in an extremelyslow rate of operation. In one configuration, memory 1429 will includeROM 1406, RAM 1405, and a storage device 1414. A storage device 1414 maybe any various computer system storage. Storage devices may include: anarray of devices (e.g., Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID)); acache memory, a drum; a (fixed and/or removable) magnetic disk drive; amagneto-optical drive; an optical drive (i.e., Blueray, CDROM/RAM/Recordable (R)/ReWritable (RW), DVD R/RW, HD DVD R/RW etc.); RAMdrives; register memory (e.g., in a CPU), solid state memory devices(USB memory, solid state drives (SSD), etc.); other processor-readablestorage mediums; and/or other devices of the like. Thus, a computersystemization generally employs and makes use of memory.

Component Collection

The memory 1429 may contain a collection of processor-executableapplication/library/program and/or database components (e.g., includingprocessor-executable instructions) and/or data such as, but not limitedto: operating system component(s) 1415 (operating system); informationserver component(s) 1416 (information server); user interfacecomponent(s) 1417 (user interface); Web browser component(s) 1418 (Webbrowser); database(s) 1419; mail server component(s) 1421; mail clientcomponent(s) 1422; cryptographic server component(s) 1420 (cryptographicserver); machine learning component 1423; distributed immutable ledgercomponent 1424; the MRLAPM component(s) 1435 (e.g., which may includeMLT, OOE, OWPG 1441-1443, and/or the like components); and/or the like(i.e., collectively referred to throughout as a “component collection”).These components may be stored and accessed from the storage devicesand/or from storage devices accessible through an interface bus.Although unconventional program components such as those in thecomponent collection may be stored in a local storage device 1414, theymay also be loaded and/or stored in memory such as: cache, peripheraldevices, processor registers, RAM, remote storage facilities through acommunications network, ROM, various forms of memory, and/or the like.

Operating System

The operating system component 1415 is an executable program componentfacilitating the operation of the MRLAPM controller. The operatingsystem may facilitate access of I/O, network interfaces, peripheraldevices, storage devices, and/or the like. The operating system may be ahighly fault tolerant, scalable, and secure system such as: Apple'sMacintosh OS X (Server) and macOS®; AT&T Plan 9®; Be OS®; Blackberry'sQNX®; Google's Chrome®; Microsoft's Windows® 7/8/10; Unix and Unix-likesystem distributions (such as AT&T's UNIX®; Berkley SoftwareDistribution (BSD)® variations such as FreeBSD®, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and/orthe like; Linux distributions such as Red Hat, Ubuntu, and/or the like);and/or the like operating systems. However, more limited and/or lesssecure operating systems also may be employed such as Apple MacintoshOS® (i.e., versions 1-9), IBM OS/2®, Microsoft DOS®, Microsoft Windows2000/2003/3.1/95/98/CE/Millennium/Mobile/NT/Vista/XP/7/X (Server)®, PalmOS®, and/or the like. Additionally, for robust mobile deploymentapplications, mobile operating systems may be used, such as: Apple'siOS®; China Operating System COS®; Google's Android®; Microsoft WindowsRT/Phone®; Palm's WebOS®; Samsung/Intel's Tizen®; and/or the like. Anoperating system may communicate to and/or with other components in acomponent collection, including itself, and/or the like. Mostfrequently, the operating system communicates with other programcomponents, user interfaces, and/or the like. For example, the operatingsystem may contain, communicate, generate, obtain, and/or provideprogram component, system, user, and/or data communications, requests,and/or responses. The operating system, once executed by the CPU, mayfacilitate the interaction with communications networks, data, I/O,peripheral devices, program components, memory, user input devices,and/or the like. The operating system may provide communicationsprotocols that allow the MRLAPM controller to communicate with otherentities through a communications network 1413. Various communicationprotocols may be used by the MRLAPM controller as a subcarrier transportmechanism for interaction, such as, but not limited to: multicast,TCP/IP, UDP, unicast, and/or the like.

Information Server

An information server component 1416 is a stored program component thatis executed by a CPU. The information server may be an Internetinformation server such as, but not limited to Apache SoftwareFoundation's Apache, Microsoft's Internet Information Server, and/or thelike. The information server may allow for the execution of programcomponents through facilities such as Active Server Page (ASP), ActiveX,(ANSI) (Objective-) C (++), C # and/or .NET, Common Gateway Interface(CGI) scripts, dynamic (D) hypertext markup language (HTML), FLASH,Java, JavaScript, Practical Extraction Report Language (PERL), HypertextPre-Processor (PHP), pipes, Python, Ruby, wireless application protocol(WAP), WebObjects®, and/or the like. The information server may supportsecure communications protocols such as, but not limited to, FileTransfer Protocol (FTP(S)); HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP); SecureHypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTPS), Secure Socket Layer (SSL) TransportLayer Security (TLS), messaging protocols (e.g., America Online (AOL)Instant Messenger (AIM)®, Application Exchange (APEX), ICQ, InternetRelay Chat (IRC), Microsoft Network (MSN) Messenger® Service, Presenceand Instant Messaging Protocol (PRIM), Internet Engineering TaskForce's® (IETF's) Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), SIP for InstantMessaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions (SIMPLE), Slack®, openXML-based Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) (i.e.,Jabber® or Open Mobile Alliance's (OMA's) Instant Messaging and PresenceService (IMPS)), Yahoo! Instant Messenger® Service, and/or the like).The information server may provide results in the form of Web pages toWeb browsers, and allows for the manipulated generation of the Web pagesthrough interaction with other program components. After a Domain NameSystem (DNS) resolution portion of an HTTP request is resolved to aparticular information server, the information server resolves requestsfor information at specified locations on the MRLAPM controller based onthe remainder of the HTTP request. For example, a request such ashttp://123.124.125.126/myInformation.html might have the IP portion ofthe request “123.124.125.126” resolved by a DNS server to an informationserver at that IP address; that information server might in turn furtherparse the http request for the “/myInformation.html” portion of therequest and resolve it to a location in memory containing theinformation “myInformation.html.” Additionally, other informationserving protocols may be employed across various ports, e.g., FTPcommunications across port 21, and/or the like. An information servermay communicate to and/or with other components in a componentcollection, including itself, and/or facilities of the like. Mostfrequently, the information server communicates with the MRLAPM database1419, operating systems, other program components, user interfaces, Webbrowsers, and/or the like.

Access to the MRLAPM database may be achieved through a number ofdatabase bridge mechanisms such as through scripting languages asenumerated below (e.g., CGI) and through inter-application communicationchannels as enumerated below (e.g., CORBA, WebObjects, etc.). Any datarequests through a Web browser are parsed through the bridge mechanisminto appropriate grammars as required by the MRLAPM. In one embodiment,the information server would provide a Web form accessible by a Webbrowser. Entries made into supplied fields in the Web form are tagged ashaving been entered into the particular fields, and parsed as such. Theentered terms are then passed along with the field tags, which act toinstruct the parser to generate queries directed to appropriate tablesand/or fields. In one embodiment, the parser may generate queries in SQLby instantiating a search string with the proper join/select commandsbased on the tagged text entries, and the resulting command is providedover the bridge mechanism to the MRLAPM as a query. Upon generatingquery results from the query, the results are passed over the bridgemechanism, and may be parsed for formatting and generation of a newresults Web page by the bridge mechanism. Such a new results Web page isthen provided to the information server, which may supply it to therequesting Web browser.

Also, an information server may contain, communicate, generate, obtain,and/or provide program component, system, user, and/or datacommunications, requests, and/or responses.

User Interface

Computer interfaces in some respects are similar to automobile operationinterfaces. Automobile operation interface elements such as steeringwheels, gearshifts, and speedometers facilitate the access, operation,and display of automobile resources, and status. Computer interactioninterface elements such as buttons, check boxes, cursors, graphicalviews, menus, scrollers, text fields, and windows (collectively referredto as widgets) similarly facilitate the access, capabilities, operation,and display of data and computer hardware and operating systemresources, and status. Operation interfaces are called user interfaces.Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) such as the Apple's iOS®, MacintoshOperating System's Aqua®; IBM's OS/2®; Google's Chrome® (e.g., and otherwebbrowser/cloud based client OSs); Microsoft's Windows®2000/2003/3.1/95/98/CE/Millennium/Mobile/NT/Vista/XP/7/X (Server)®(i.e., Aero, Surface, etc.); Unix's X-Windows (e.g., which may includeadditional Unix graphic interface libraries and layers such as K DesktopEnvironment (KDE), mythTV and GNU Network Object Model Environment(GNOME)), web interface libraries (e.g., ActiveX, AJAX, (D)HTML, FLASH,Java, JavaScript, etc. interface libraries such as, but not limited to,Dojo, jQuery(UI), MooTools, Prototype, script.aculo.us, SWFObject,Yahoo! User Interface®, and/or the like, any of which may be used and)provide a baseline and mechanism of accessing and displaying informationgraphically to users.

A user interface component 1417 is a stored program component that isexecuted by a CPU. The user interface may be a graphic user interface asprovided by, with, and/or atop operating systems and/or operatingenvironments, and may provide executable library APIs (as may operatingsystems and the numerous other components noted in the componentcollection) that allow instruction calls to generate user interfaceelements such as already discussed. The user interface may allow for thedisplay, execution, interaction, manipulation, and/or operation ofprogram components and/or system facilities through textual and/orgraphical facilities. The user interface provides a facility throughwhich users may affect, interact, and/or operate a computer system. Auser interface may communicate to and/or with other components in acomponent collection, including itself, and/or facilities of the like.Most frequently, the user interface communicates with operating systems,other program components, and/or the like. The user interface maycontain, communicate, generate, obtain, and/or provide programcomponent, system, user, and/or data communications, requests, and/orresponses.

Web Browser

A Web browser component 1418 is a stored program component that isexecuted by a CPU. The Web browser may be a hypertext viewingapplication such as Apple's (mobile) Safari®, Google's Chrome®,Microsoft Internet Explorer®, Mozilla's Firefox®, Netscape Navigator®,and/or the like. Secure Web browsing may be supplied with 128 bit (orgreater) encryption by way of HTTPS, SSL, and/or the like. Web browsersallowing for the execution of program components through facilities suchas ActiveX, AJAX, (D)HTML, FLASH, Java, JavaScript, web browser plug-inAPIs (e.g., FireFox®, Safari® Plug-in, and/or the like APIs), and/or thelike. Web browsers and like information access tools may be integratedinto PDAs, cellular telephones, and/or other mobile devices. A Webbrowser may communicate to and/or with other components in a componentcollection, including itself, and/or facilities of the like. Mostfrequently, the Web browser communicates with information servers,operating systems, integrated program components (e.g., plug-ins),and/or the like; e.g., it may contain, communicate, generate, obtain,and/or provide program component, system, user, and/or datacommunications, requests, and/or responses. Also, in place of a Webbrowser and information server, a combined application may be developedto perform similar operations of both. The combined application wouldsimilarly affect the obtaining and the provision of information tousers, user agents, and/or the like from the MRLAPM enabled nodes. Thecombined application may be nugatory on systems employing Web browsers.

Mail Server

A mail server component 1421 is a stored program component that isexecuted by a CPU 1403. The mail server may be an Internet mail serversuch as, but not limited to: dovecot, Courier IMAP, Cyrus IMAP, Maildir,Microsoft Exchange, sendmail, and/or the like. The mail server may allowfor the execution of program components through facilities such as ASP,ActiveX, (ANSI) (Objective-) C (++), C # and/or .NET, CGI scripts, Java,JavaScript, PERL, PHP, pipes, Python, WebObjects®, and/or the like. Themail server may support communications protocols such as, but notlimited to: Internet message access protocol (IMAP), MessagingApplication Programming Interface (MAPI)/Microsoft Exchange, post officeprotocol (POPS), simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP), and/or the like.The mail server can route, forward, and process incoming and outgoingmail messages that have been sent, relayed and/or otherwise traversingthrough and/or to the MRLAPM. Alternatively, the mail server componentmay be distributed out to mail service providing entities such asGoogle's® cloud services (e.g., Gmail and notifications mayalternatively be provided via messenger services such as AOL's InstantMessenger®, Apple's iMessage®, Google Messenger®, SnapChat®, etc.).

Access to the MRLAPM mail may be achieved through a number of APIsoffered by the individual Web server components and/or the operatingsystem.

Also, a mail server may contain, communicate, generate, obtain, and/orprovide program component, system, user, and/or data communications,requests, information, and/or responses.

Mail Client

A mail client component 1422 is a stored program component that isexecuted by a CPU 1403. The mail client may be a mail viewingapplication such as Apple Mail®, Microsoft Entourage®, MicrosoftOutlook®, Microsoft Outlook Express®, Mozilla®, Thunderbird®, and/or thelike. Mail clients may support a number of transfer protocols, such as:IMAP, Microsoft Exchange, POPS, SMTP, and/or the like. A mail client maycommunicate to and/or with other components in a component collection,including itself, and/or facilities of the like. Most frequently, themail client communicates with mail servers, operating systems, othermail clients, and/or the like; e.g., it may contain, communicate,generate, obtain, and/or provide program component, system, user, and/ordata communications, requests, information, and/or responses. Generally,the mail client provides a facility to compose and transmit electronicmail messages.

Cryptographic Server

A cryptographic server component 1420 is a stored program component thatis executed by a CPU 1403, cryptographic processor 1426, cryptographicprocessor interface 1427, cryptographic processor device 1428, and/orthe like. Cryptographic processor interfaces will allow for expeditionof encryption and/or decryption requests by the cryptographic component;however, the cryptographic component, alternatively, may run on a CPUand/or GPU. The cryptographic component allows for the encryption and/ordecryption of provided data. The cryptographic component allows for bothsymmetric and asymmetric (e.g., Pretty Good Protection (PGP)) encryptionand/or decryption. The cryptographic component may employ cryptographictechniques such as, but not limited to: digital certificates (e.g.,X.509 authentication framework), digital signatures, dual signatures,enveloping, password access protection, public key management, and/orthe like. The cryptographic component facilitates numerous (encryptionand/or decryption) security protocols such as, but not limited to:checksum, Data Encryption Standard (DES), Elliptical Curve Encryption(ECC), International Data Encryption Algorithm (IDEA), Message Digest 5(MD5, which is a one way hash operation), passwords, Rivest Cipher(RC5), Rijndael, RSA (which is an Internet encryption and authenticationsystem that uses an algorithm developed in 1977 by Ron Rivest, AdiShamir, and Leonard Adleman), Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA), Secure SocketLayer (SSL), Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTPS), Transport LayerSecurity (TLS), and/or the like. Employing such encryption securityprotocols, the MRLAPM may encrypt all incoming and/or outgoingcommunications and may serve as node within a virtual private network(VPN) with a wider communications network. The cryptographic componentfacilitates the process of “security authorization” whereby access to aresource is inhibited by a security protocol and the cryptographiccomponent effects authorized access to the secured resource. Inaddition, the cryptographic component may provide unique identifiers ofcontent, e.g., employing an MD5 hash to obtain a unique signature for adigital audio file. A cryptographic component may communicate to and/orwith other components in a component collection, including itself,and/or facilities of the like. The cryptographic component supportsencryption schemes allowing for the secure transmission of informationacross a communications network to allow the MRLAPM component to engagein secure transactions if so desired. The cryptographic componentfacilitates the secure accessing of resources on the MRLAPM andfacilitates the access of secured resources on remote systems; i.e., itmay act as a client and/or server of secured resources. Most frequently,the cryptographic component communicates with information servers,operating systems, other program components, and/or the like. Thecryptographic component may contain, communicate, generate, obtain,and/or provide program component, system, user, and/or datacommunications, requests, and/or responses.

Machine Learning (ML)

In one non limiting embodiment, the MRLAPM includes a machine learningcomponent 1423, which may be a stored program component that is executedby a CPU 1403. The machine learning component, alternatively, may run ona set of specialized processors, ASICs, FPGAs, GPUs, and/or the like.The machine learning component may be deployed to execute serially, inparallel, distributed, and/or the like, such as by utilizing cloudcomputing. The machine learning component may employ an ML platform suchas Amazon SageMaker, Azure Machine Learning, DataRobot AI Cloud, GoogleAI Platform, IBM Watson® Studio, and/or the like. The machine learningcomponent may be implemented using an ML framework such as PyTorch,Apache MXNet, MathWorks Deep Learning Toolbox, scikit-learn, TensorFlow,XGBoost, and/or the like. The machine learning component facilitatestraining and/or testing of ML prediction logic data structures (e.g.,models) and/or utilizing ML prediction logic data structures (e.g.,models) to output ML predictions by the MRLAPM. The machine learningcomponent may employ various artificial intelligence and/or learningmechanisms such as Reinforcement Learning, Supervised Learning,Unsupervised Learning, and/or the like. The machine learning componentmay employ ML prediction logic data structure (e.g., model) types suchas Bayesian Networks, Classification prediction logic data structures(e.g., models), Decision Trees, Neural Networks (NNs), Regressionprediction logic data structures (e.g., models), and/or the like.

Distributed Immutable Ledger (DIL)

In one non limiting embodiment, the MRLAPM includes a distributedimmutable ledger component 1424, which may be a stored program componentthat is executed by a CPU 1403. The distributed immutable ledgercomponent, alternatively, may run on a set of specialized processors,ASICs, FPGAs, GPUs, and/or the like. The distributed immutable ledgercomponent may be deployed to execute serially, in parallel, distributed,and/or the like, such as by utilizing a peer-to-peer network. Thedistributed immutable ledger component may be implemented as ablockchain (e.g., public blockchain, private blockchain, hybridblockchain) that comprises cryptographically linked records (e.g.,blocks). The distributed immutable ledger component may employ aplatform such as Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Dogecoin, Ethereum, Litecoin,Monero, Zcash, and/or the like. The distributed immutable ledgercomponent may employ a consensus mechanism such as proof of authority,proof of space, proof of steak, proof of work, and/or the like. Thedistributed immutable ledger component may be used to providefunctionality such as data storage, cryptocurrency, inventory tracking,non-fungible tokens (NFTs), smart contracts, and/or the like.

The MRLAPM Database

The MRLAPM database component 1419 may be embodied in a database and itsstored data. The database is a stored program component, which isexecuted by the CPU; the stored program component portion configuringthe CPU to process the stored data. The database may be a faulttolerant, relational, scalable, secure database such as ClarisFileMaker®, MySQL®, Oracle®, Sybase®, etc. may be used. Additionally,optimized fast memory and distributed databases such as IBM's Netezza®,MongoDB's MongoDB®, opensource Hadoop®, opensource VoltDB, SAP's Hana®,etc. Relational databases are an extension of a flat file. Relationaldatabases include a series of related tables. The tables areinterconnected via a key field. Use of the key field allows thecombination of the tables by indexing against the key field; i.e., thekey fields act as dimensional pivot points for combining informationfrom various tables. Relationships generally identify links maintainedbetween tables by matching primary keys. Primary keys represent fieldsthat uniquely identify the rows of a table in a relational database.Alternative key fields may be used from any of the fields having uniquevalue sets, and in some alternatives, even non-unique values incombinations with other fields. More precisely, they uniquely identifyrows of a table on the “one” side of a one-to-many relationship.

Alternatively, the MRLAPM database may be implemented using variousother data-structures, such as an array, hash, (linked) list, struct,structured text file (e.g., XML), table, flat file database, and/or thelike. Such data-structures may be stored in memory and/or in(structured) files. In another alternative, an object-oriented databasemay be used, such as Frontier™, ObjectStore, Poet, Zope, and/or thelike. Object databases can include a number of object collections thatare grouped and/or linked together by common attributes; they may berelated to other object collections by some common attributes.Object-oriented databases perform similarly to relational databases withthe exception that objects are not just pieces of data but may haveother types of capabilities encapsulated within a given object. If theMRLAPM database is implemented as a data-structure, the use of theMRLAPM database 1419 may be integrated into another component such asthe MRLAPM component 1435. Also, the database may be implemented as amix of data structures, objects, programs, relational structures,scripts, and/or the like. Databases may be consolidated and/ordistributed in countless variations (e.g., see Distributed MRLAPMbelow). Portions of databases, e.g., tables, may be exported and/orimported and thus decentralized and/or integrated.

In another embodiment, the database component (and/or other storagemechanism of the MRLAPM) may store data immutably so that tampering withthe data becomes physically impossible and the fidelity and security ofthe data may be assured. In some embodiments, the database may be storedto write only or write once, read many (WORM) mediums. In anotherembodiment, the data may be stored on distributed ledger systems (e.g.,via blockchain) so that any tampering to entries would be readilyidentifiable. In one embodiment, the database component may employ thedistributed immutable ledger component DIL 1424 mechanism.

In one embodiment, the database component 1419 includes several tablesrepresentative of the schema, tables, structures, keys, entities andrelationships of the described database 1419 a-z:

An accounts table 1419 a includes fields such as, but not limited to: anaccountID, accountOwnerID, accountContactID, assetIDs, deviceIDs,paymentIDs, transactionIDs, userIDs, accountType (e.g., agent, entity(e.g., corporate, non-profit, partnership, etc.), individual, etc.),accountCreationDate, accountUpdateDate, accountName, accountNumber,routingNumber, linkWalletsID, accountPrioritAccaountRatio,accountAddress, accountState, accountZIPcode, accountCountry,accountEmail, accountPhone, accountAuthKey, accountIPaddress,accountURLAccessCode, accountPortNo, accountAuthorizationCode,accountAcces sPrivileges, accountPreferences, accountRestrictions,and/or the like;

A users table 1419 b includes fields such as, but not limited to: auserID, userSSN, taxID, userContactID, accountID, assetIDs, deviceIDs,paymentIDs, transactionIDs, userType (e.g., agent, entity (e.g.,corporate, non-profit, partnership, etc.), individual, etc.),namePrefix, firstName, middleName, lastName, nameSuffix, DateOfBirth,userAge, userName, userEmail, userSocialAccountID, contactType,contactRelationship, userPhone, userAddress, userCity, userState,userZIPCode, userCountry, userAuthorizationCode, userAccessPrivilges,userPreferences, userRestrictions, and/or the like (the user table maysupport and/or track multiple entity accounts on a MRLAPM);

An devices table 1419 c includes fields such as, but not limited to:deviceID, sensorIDs, accountID, assetIDs, paymentIDs, deviceType,deviceName, deviceManufacturer, deviceModel, deviceVersion,deviceSerialNo, deviceIPaddress, deviceMACaddress, device_ECID,deviceUUID, deviceLocation, deviceCertificate, deviceOS, appIDs,deviceResources, deviceSession, authKey, deviceSecureKey,walletAppInstalledFlag, deviceAccessPrivileges, devicePreferences,deviceRestrictions, hardware_config, software_config, storage_location,sensor_value, pin_reading, data_length, channel_requirement,sensor_name, sensor_model_no, sensor_manufacturer, sensor_type,sensor_serial_number, sensor_power_requirement,device_power_requirement, location, sensor_associated_tool,sensor_dimensions, device_dimensions, sensor_communications_type,device_communications_type, power_percentage, power_condition,temperature_setting, speed_adjust, hold_duration, part_actuation, and/orthe like. Device table may, in some embodiments, include fieldscorresponding to one or more Bluetooth profiles, such as those publishedat https://www.bluetooth.org/en-us/specification/adopted-specifications,and/or other device specifications, and/or the like;

An apps table 1419 d includes fields such as, but not limited to: appID,appName, appType, appDependencies, accountID, deviceIDs, transactionID,userID, appStoreAuthKey, appStoreAccountID, appStoreIPaddress,appStoreURLaccessCode, appStorePortNo, appAccessPrivileges,appPreferences, app Restrictions, portNum, access_API_call,linked_wallets_list, and/or the like;

An assets table 1419 e includes fields such as, but not limited to:assetID, accountID, userID, distributorAccountID, distributorPaymentID,distributorOnwerID, assetOwnerID, assetType, as setSourceDeviceID, assetSourceDeviceType, as setSourceDeviceName,assetSourceDistributionChannelID, assetSourceDistributionChannelType,assetSourceDistributionChannelName, assetTargetChannelID,assetTargetChannelType, assetTargetChannelName, as setName,assetSeriesName, assetSeriesSeason, assetSeriesEpisode, assetCode,assetQuantity, assetCost, assetPrice, assetValue, assetManufactuer,assetModelNo, assetSerialNo, assetLocation, assetAddress, assetState,assetZlPcode, assetState, assetCountry, assetEmail, assetlPaddress,assetURLaccessCode, assetOwnerAccountID, subscriptionIDs, assetAuthroizationCode, assetAccessPrivileges, assetPreferences,assetRestrictions, assetAPI, assetAPIconnectionAddress, and/or the like;

A payments table 1419 f includes fields such as, but not limited to:paymentID, accountID, userID, couponID, couponValue, couponConditions,couponExpiration, paymentType, paymentAccountNo, paymentAccountName,paymentAccountAuthorizationCodes, paymentExpirationDate, paymentCCV,paymentRoutingNo, paymentRoutingType, paymentAddress, paymentState,paymentZIPcode, paymentCountry, paymentEmail, paymentAuthKey,paymentIPaddress, paymentURLaccessCode, paymentPortNo,paymentAccessPrivileges, paymentPreferences, payementRestrictions,and/or the like;

An transactions table 1419 g includes fields such as, but not limitedto: transactionID, accountID, assetIDs, deviceIDs, paymentIDs,transactionIDs, userID, merchantID, transactionType, transactionDate,transactionTime, transactionAmount, transactionQuantity,transactionDetails, productsList, productType, productTitle,productsSummary, productParamsList, transactionNo,transactionAccessPrivileges, transactionPreferences,transactionRestrictions, merchantAuthKey, merchantAuthCode, and/or thelike;

An merchants table 1419 h includes fields such as, but not limited to:merchantID, merchantTaxID, merchanteName, merchantContactUserID,accountID, issuerID, acquirerID, merchantEmail, merchantAddress,merchantState, merchantZIPcode, merchantCountry, merchantAuthKey,merchantIPaddress, portNum, merchantURLaccessC ode, merchantPortNo,merchantAccessPrivileges, merchantPreferences, merchantRestrictions,and/or the like;

An ads table 1419 i includes fields such as, but not limited to: adID,advertiserID, adMerchantID, adNetworkID, adName, adTags, advertiserName,adSponsor, adTime, adGeo, adAttributes, adFormat, adProduct, adText,adMedia, adMediaID, adChannelID, adTagTime, adAudioSignature, adHash,adTemplateID, adTemplateData, adSourceID, adSourceName,adSourceServerlP, adSourceURL, adSourceSecurityProtocol, adSourceFTP,adAuthKey, adAccessPrivileges, adPreferences, adRestrictions,adNetworkXchangeID, adNe tworkXchangeName, adNetworkXchangeCost,adNetworkXchangeMetricType (e.g., CPA, CPC, CPM, CTR, etc.),adNetworkXchangeMetricValue, adNetworkXchangeServer,adNetworkXchangePortNumber, publisherID, publisherAddress, publisherURL,publisherTag, publisherIndustry, publisherName, publisherDescription,siteDomain, siteURL, siteContent, siteTag, siteContext, sitelmpression,siteVisits, siteHeadline, sitePage, siteAdPrice, sitePlacement,sitePosition, bidID, bidExchange, bidOS, bidTarget, bidTimestamp,bidPrice, bidlmpressionID, bidType, bidScore, adType (e.g., mobile,desktop, wearable, largescreen, interstitial, etc.), assetID,merchantID, deviceID, userID, accountID, impressionID, impressionOS,impressionTimeStamp, impressionGeo, impressionAction, impressionType,impressionPublisherID, impressionPublisherURL, and/or the like;

An ML table 1419 j includes fields such as, but not limited to: MLID,predictionLogicStructureID, predictionLogicStructureType,predictionLogicStructureConfiguration,predictionLogicStructureTrainedStructure,predictionLogicStructureTrainingData,predictionLogicStructureTrainingDataConfiguration,predictionLogicStructureTestingData,predictionLogicStructureTestingDataConfiguration,predictionLogicStructureOutputData,predictionLogicStructureOutputDataConfiguration, and/or the like;

A market_data table 1419 z includes fields such as, but not limited to:market_data_feed_ID, asset_ID, asset_symbol, asset_name, spot_price,bid_price, ask_price, and/or the like; in one embodiment, the marketdata table is populated through a market data feed (e.g., Bloomberg'sPhatPipe®, Consolidated Quote System® (CQS), Consolidated TapeAssociation® (CTA), Consolidated Tape System® (CTS), Dun & Bradstreet®,OTC Montage Data Feed® (OMDF), Reuter's Tib®, Triarch®, US equity tradeand quote market data®, Unlisted Trading Privileges® (UTP) Trade DataFeed® (UTDF), UTP Quotation Data Feed® (UQDF), and/or the like feeds,e.g., via ITC 2.1 and/or respective feed protocols), for example,through Microsoft's® Active Template Library and Dealing ObjectTechnology's real-time toolkit Rtt.Multi.

In one embodiment, the MRLAPM database may interact with other databasesystems. For example, employing a distributed database system, queriesand data access by search MRLAPM component may treat the combination ofthe MRLAPM database, an integrated data security layer database as asingle database entity (e.g., see Distributed MRLAPM below).

In one embodiment, user programs may contain various user interfaceprimitives, which may serve to update the MRLAPM. Also, various accountsmay require custom database tables depending upon the environments andthe types of clients the MRLAPM may need to serve. It should be notedthat any unique fields may be designated as a key field throughout. Inan alternative embodiment, these tables have been decentralized intotheir own databases and their respective database controllers (i.e.,individual database controllers for each of the above tables). TheMRLAPM may also be configured to distribute the databases over severalcomputer systemizations and/or storage devices Similarly, configurationsof the decentralized database controllers may be varied by consolidatingand/or distributing the various database components 1419 a-z. The MRLAPMmay be configured to keep track of various settings, inputs, andparameters via database controllers.

The MRLAPM database may communicate to and/or with other components in acomponent collection, including itself, and/or facilities of the like.Most frequently, the MRLAPM database communicates with the MRLAPMcomponent, other program components, and/or the like. The database maycontain, retain, and provide information regarding other nodes and data.

The MRLAPMs

The MRLAPM component 1435 is a stored program component that is executedby a CPU via stored instruction code configured to engage signals acrossconductive pathways of the CPU and ISICI controller components. In oneembodiment, the MRLAPM component incorporates any and/or allcombinations of the aspects of the MRLAPM that were discussed in theprevious figures. As such, the MRLAPM affects accessing, obtaining andthe provision of information, services, transactions, and/or the likeacross various communications networks. The features and embodiments ofthe MRLAPM discussed herein increase network efficiency by reducing datatransfer requirements with the use of more efficient data structures andmechanisms for their transfer and storage. As a consequence, more datamay be transferred in less time, and latencies with regard totransactions, are also reduced. In many cases, such reduction instorage, transfer time, bandwidth requirements, latencies, etc., willreduce the capacity and structural infrastructure requirements tosupport the MRLAPM's features and facilities, and in many cases reducethe costs, energy consumption/requirements, and extend the life ofMRLAPM's underlying infrastructure; this has the added benefit of makingthe MRLAPM more reliable. Similarly, many of the features and mechanismsare designed to be easier for users to use and access, therebybroadening the audience that may enjoy/employ and exploit the featuresets of the MRLAPM; such ease of use also helps to increase thereliability of the MRLAPM. In addition, the feature sets includeheightened security as noted via the Cryptographic components 1420,1426, 1428 and throughout, making access to the features and data morereliable and secure

The MRLAPM transforms machine learning training input, orderoptimization input, withdrawal policy optimization inputdatastructure/inputs, via MRLAPM components (e.g., MLT, OOE, OWPG), intomachine learning training output, order optimization output, withdrawalpolicy optimization output outputs.

The MRLAPM component facilitates access of information between nodes maybe developed by employing various development tools and languages suchas, but not limited to: Apache® components, Assembly, ActiveX, binaryexecutables, (ANSI) (Objective-) C (++), C # and/or .NET, databaseadapters, CGI scripts, Java, JavaScript, mapping tools, procedural andobject oriented development tools, PERL, PHP, Python, Ruby, shellscripts, SQL commands, web application server extensions, webdevelopment environments and libraries (e.g., Microsoft's® ActiveX;Adobe® AIR, FLEX & FLASH; AJAX; (D)HTML; Dojo, Java; JavaScript;jQuery(UI); MooTools; Prototype; script.aculo.us; Simple Object AccessProtocol (SOAP); SWFObject; Yahoo!® User Interface; and/or the like),WebObjects®, and/or the like. In one embodiment, the MRLAPM serveremploys a cryptographic server to encrypt and decrypt communications.The MRLAPM component may communicate to and/or with other components ina component collection, including itself, and/or facilities of the like.Most frequently, the MRLAPM component communicates with the MRLAPMdatabase, operating systems, other program components, and/or the like.The MRLAPM may contain, communicate, generate, obtain, and/or provideprogram component, system, user, and/or data communications, requests,and/or responses.

Distributed MRLAPMs

The structure and/or operation of any of the MRLAPM node controllercomponents may be combined, consolidated, and/or distributed in anynumber of ways to facilitate development and/or deployment Similarly,the component collection may be combined in any number of ways tofacilitate deployment and/or development. To accomplish this, one mayintegrate the components into a common code base or in a facility thatcan dynamically load the components on demand in an integrated fashion.As such, a combination of hardware may be distributed within a location,within a region and/or globally where logical access to a controller maybe abstracted as a singular node, yet where a multitude of private,semiprivate and publicly accessible node controllers (e.g., viadispersed data centers) are coordinated to serve requests (e.g.,providing private cloud, semi-private cloud, and public cloud computingresources) and allowing for the serving of such requests in discreteregions (e.g., isolated, local, regional, national, global cloud access,etc.).

The component collection may be consolidated and/or distributed incountless variations through various data processing and/or developmenttechniques. Multiple instances of any one of the program components inthe program component collection may be instantiated on a single node,and/or across numerous nodes to improve performance throughload-balancing and/or data-processing techniques. Furthermore, singleinstances may also be distributed across multiple controllers and/orstorage devices; e.g., databases. All program component instances andcontrollers working in concert may do so as discussed through thedisclosure and/or through various other data processing communicationtechniques.

The configuration of the MRLAPM controller will depend on the context ofsystem deployment. Factors such as, but not limited to, the budget,capacity, location, and/or use of the underlying hardware resources mayaffect deployment requirements and configuration. Regardless of if theconfiguration results in more consolidated and/or integrated programcomponents, results in a more distributed series of program components,and/or results in some combination between a consolidated anddistributed configuration, data may be communicated, obtained, and/orprovided. Instances of components consolidated into a common code basefrom the program component collection may communicate, obtain, and/orprovide data. This may be accomplished through intra-application dataprocessing communication techniques such as, but not limited to: datareferencing (e.g., pointers), internal messaging, object instancevariable communication, shared memory space, variable passing, and/orthe like. For example, cloud services such as Amazon Data Services®,Microsoft Azure®, Hewlett Packard Helion®, IBM® Cloud services allow forMRLAPM controller and/or MRLAPM component collections to be hosted infull or partially for varying degrees of scale.

If component collection components are discrete, separate, and/orexternal to one another, then communicating, obtaining, and/or providingdata with and/or to other component components may be accomplishedthrough inter-application data processing communication techniques suchas, but not limited to: Application Program Interfaces (API) informationpassage; (distributed) Component Object Model ((D)COM), (Distributed)Object Linking and Embedding ((D)OLE), and/or the like), Common ObjectRequest Broker Architecture (CORBA), Jini local and remote applicationprogram interfaces, JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), NeXT Computer,Inc.'s (Dynamic) Object Linking, Remote Method Invocation (RMI), SOAP,process pipes, shared files, and/or the like. Messages sent betweendiscrete component components for inter-application communication orwithin memory spaces of a singular component for intra-applicationcommunication may be facilitated through the creation and parsing of agrammar A grammar may be developed by using development tools such asJSON, lex, yacc, XML, and/or the like, which allow for grammargeneration and parsing capabilities, which in turn may form the basis ofcommunication messages within and between components.

For example, a grammar may be arranged to recognize the tokens of anHTTP post command, e.g.:

-   -   w3c-post http:// . . . Value1

where Value1 is discerned as being a parameter because “http://” is partof the grammar syntax, and what follows is considered part of the postvalue Similarly, with such a grammar, a variable “Value1” may beinserted into an “http://” post command and then sent. The grammarsyntax itself may be presented as structured data that is interpretedand/or otherwise used to generate the parsing mechanism (e.g., a syntaxdescription text file as processed by lex, yacc, etc.). Also, once theparsing mechanism is generated and/or instantiated, it itself mayprocess and/or parse structured data such as, but not limited to:character (e.g., tab) delineated text, HTML, structured text streams,XML, and/or the like structured data. In another embodiment,inter-application data processing protocols themselves may haveintegrated parsers (e.g., JSON, SOAP, and/or like parsers) that may beemployed to parse (e.g., communications) data. Further, the parsinggrammar may be used beyond message parsing, but may also be used toparse: databases, data collections, data stores, structured data, and/orthe like. Again, the desired configuration will depend upon the context,environment, and requirements of system deployment.

For example, in some implementations, the MRLAPM controller may beexecuting a PHP script implementing a Secure Sockets Layer (“SSL”)socket server via the information server, which listens to incomingcommunications on a server port to which a client may send data, e.g.,data encoded in JSON format. Upon identifying an incoming communication,the PHP script may read the incoming message from the client device,parse the received JSON-encoded text data to extract information fromthe JSON-encoded text data into PHP script variables, and store the data(e.g., client identifying information, etc.) and/or extractedinformation in a relational database accessible using the StructuredQuery Language (“SQL”). An exemplary listing, written substantially inthe form of PHP/SQL commands, to accept JSON-encoded input data from aclient device via an SSL connection, parse the data to extractvariables, and store the data to a database, is provided below:

  <?PHP header(‘Content-Type: text/plain’); // set ip address and portto listen to for incoming data $address = ‘192.168.0.100’; $port = 255;// create a server-side SSL socket, listen for/accept incomingcommunication $sock = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);socket_bind($sock, $address, $port) or die(‘Could not bind to address’);socket_listen($sock); $client = socket_accept($sock); // read input datafrom client device in 1024 byte blocks until end of message do {  $input = “”;   $input = socket_read($client, 1024);   $data .= $input;} while($input != “”); // parse data to extract variables $obj =json_decode($data, true); // store input data in a databasemysql_connect(“201.408.185.132”,$DBserver,$password); // access databaseserver mysql_select(“CLIENT_DB.SQL”); // select database to appendmysql_query(“INSERT INTO UserTable (transmission) VALUES ($data)”); //add data to UserTable table in a CLIENT databasemysql_close(“CLIENT_DB.SQL”); // close connection to database ?>

Also, the following resources may be used to provide example embodimentsregarding SOAP parser implementation:

-   -   http://www.xay.com/perl/site/lib/SOAP/Parser.html    -   http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v2r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.IBMDI.d        oc/referenceguide295.htm        and other parser implementations:    -   http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v2r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.IBMDI.d        oc/referenceguide259.htm        all of which are hereby expressly incorporated by reference.

In order to address various issues and advance the art, the entirety ofthis application for Reinforcement Learning Based Machine Asset Planningand Management Apparatuses, Processes and Systems (including the CoverPage, Title, Headings, Field, Background, Summary, Brief Description ofthe Drawings, Detailed Description, Claims, Abstract, Figures,Appendices, and otherwise) shows, by way of illustration, variousembodiments in which the claimed innovations may be practiced. Theadvantages and features of the application are of a representativesample of embodiments only, and are not exhaustive and/or exclusive.They are presented only to assist in understanding and teach the claimedprinciples. It should be understood that they are not representative ofall claimed innovations. As such, certain aspects of the disclosure havenot been discussed herein. That alternate embodiments may not have beenpresented for a specific portion of the innovations or that furtherundescribed alternate embodiments may be available for a portion is notto be considered a disclaimer of those alternate embodiments. It will beappreciated that many of those undescribed embodiments incorporate thesame principles of the innovations and others are equivalent. Thus, itis to be understood that other embodiments may be utilized andfunctional, logical, operational, organizational, structural and/ortopological modifications may be made without departing from the scopeand/or spirit of the disclosure. As such, all examples and/orembodiments are deemed to be non-limiting throughout this disclosure.Further and to the extent any financial and/or investment examples areincluded, such examples are for illustrative purpose(s) only, and arenot, nor should they be interpreted, as investment advice. Also, noinference should be drawn regarding those embodiments discussed hereinrelative to those not discussed herein other than it is as such forpurposes of reducing space and repetition. For instance, it is to beunderstood that the logical and/or topological structure of anycombination of any program components (a component collection), othercomponents, data flow order, logic flow order, and/or any presentfeature sets as described in the figures and/or throughout are notlimited to a fixed operating order and/or arrangement, but rather, anydisclosed order is exemplary and all equivalents, regardless of order,are contemplated by the disclosure. Similarly, descriptions ofembodiments disclosed throughout this disclosure, any reference todirection or orientation is merely intended for convenience ofdescription and is not intended in any way to limit the scope ofdescribed embodiments. Relative terms such as “lower”, “upper”,“horizontal”, “vertical”, “above”, “below”, “up”, “down”, “top” and“bottom” as well as derivatives thereof (e.g., “horizontally”,“downwardly”, “upwardly”, etc.) should not be construed to limitembodiments, and instead, again, are offered for convenience ofdescription of orientation. These relative descriptors are forconvenience of description only and do not require that any embodimentsbe constructed or operated in a particular orientation unless explicitlyindicated as such. Terms such as “attached”, “affixed”, “connected”,“coupled”, “interconnected”, etc. may refer to a relationship wherestructures are secured or attached to one another either directly orindirectly through intervening structures, as well as both movable orrigid attachments or relationships, unless expressly describedotherwise. Furthermore, it is to be understood that such features arenot limited to serial execution, but rather, any number of threads,processes, services, servers, and/or the like that may executeasynchronously, concurrently, in parallel, simultaneously,synchronously, and/or the like are contemplated by the disclosure. Assuch, some of these features may be mutually contradictory, in that theycannot be simultaneously present in a single embodiment. Similarly, somefeatures are applicable to one aspect of the innovations, andinapplicable to others. In addition, the disclosure includes otherinnovations not presently claimed. Applicant reserves all rights inthose presently unclaimed innovations including the right to claim suchinnovations, file additional applications, continuations, continuationsin part, divisions, provisionals, re-issues, and/or the like thereof. Assuch, it should be understood that advantages, embodiments, examples,functional, features, logical, operational, organizational, structural,topological, and/or other aspects of the disclosure are not to beconsidered limitations on the disclosure as defined by the claims orlimitations on equivalents to the claims. It is to be understood that,depending on the particular needs and/or characteristics of a MRLAPMindividual and/or enterprise user, database configuration and/orrelational model, data type, data transmission and/or network framework,library, syntax structure, and/or the like, various embodiments of theMRLAPM, may be implemented that allow a great deal of flexibility andcustomization. For example, aspects of the MRLAPM may be adapted forexpert human to machine knowledge transfer (e.g., in financial, legal,medical, technical, etc. fields). While various embodiments anddiscussions of the MRLAPM have included machine learning and databasesystems, however, it is to be understood that the embodiments describedherein may be readily configured and/or customized for a wide variety ofother applications and/or implementations.

What is claimed is:
 1. An artificial intelligence-based orderoptimization recommendation engine generating apparatus, comprising: atleast one memory; a component collection stored in the at least onememory; at least one processor disposed in communication with the atleast one memory, the at least one processor executingprocessor-executable instructions from the component collection, thecomponent collection storage structured with processor-executableinstructions, comprising: obtain, via the at least one processor, amachine learning (ML) training request datastructure, in which the MLtraining request datastructure is structured to specify a set of agentprofile datastructures and an agent sample ranking function, in which anagent profile datastructure is structured to specify an agent's episodicholdings, trades and cashflow data at a bucket level for a trainingperiod; determine, via the at least one processor, an agent samplesrange, in which the agent samples range is structured as a set ofsubsequences of agents' episodic holdings, trades and cashflow data;generate, via the at least one processor, a set of inverse reinforcementlearning (IRL) training sample datastructures, in which an IRL trainingsample datastructure is structured to specify a pairwise comparison ofrankings of a pair of agents during a subsequence in the set ofsubsequences as determined using the agent sample ranking function;determine, via the at least one processor, a reward function structureto use for inverse reinforcement learning; determine, via the at leastone processor, an optimal reward function having the determined rewardfunction structure using an IRL technique on the set of IRL trainingsample datastructures, in which the optimal reward function isstructured to have parameters that keep pairwise agent ranking ordersspecified in the set of IRL training sample datastructures; determine,via the at least one processor, an optimal policy using a reinforcementlearning (RL) technique and the optimal reward function, in which theoptimal policy provides trading recommendations based on currentholdings and an order constraint value; and store, via the at least oneprocessor, an optimal policy datastructure, in which the optimal policydatastructure is structured to specify a set of parameters that definethe structure of the optimal policy.
 2. The apparatus of claim 1, inwhich an agent profile datastructure of an agent is structured tocorrespond to a fund trading profile of a fund.
 3. The apparatus ofclaim 2, in which funds corresponding to the set of agent profiledatastructures utilize the same benchmark portfolio as a fundperformance benchmark.
 4. The apparatus of claim 1, in which an agent'sepisodic holdings, trades and cashflow data is for an episode lengththat is one of: a day, a week, a month, a quarter, a year.
 5. Theapparatus of claim 1, in which a bucket is one of: an individual stock,a sector, a portfolio.
 6. The apparatus of claim 1, in which thetraining period is one of: a month, a quarter, a year, a plurality ofyears.
 7. The apparatus of claim 1, in which the agent sample rankingfunction is one of: fund return, Sharpe ratio, Sortino ratio.
 8. Theapparatus of claim 1, in which subsequences in the set of subsequencesare structured to have different subsequence lengths.
 9. The apparatusof claim 1, in which subsequences in the set of subsequences arestructured to have overlapping date ranges.
 10. The apparatus of claim1, in which an IRL training sample datastructure is structured tocomprise: a tuple specifying two agent-subsequence identifiers, and abinary value specifying a pairwise agent ranking order associated withthe two agent-subsequence identifiers.
 11. The apparatus of claim 1, inwhich the reward function structure to use for inverse reinforcementlearning is a parametric T-REX function.
 12. The apparatus of claim 11,in which the parametric T-REX function is structured to have a set offour parameters {ρ, η, ω}.
 13. The apparatus of claim 1, in which theIRL technique is T-REX.
 14. The apparatus of claim 1, in which the RLtechnique is G-Learner.
 15. The apparatus of claim 1, in which the setof parameters that define the structure of the optimal policy comprisesthree parameters ũ_(t), {tilde over (v)}_(t), {tilde over (Σ)}_(p). 16.An artificial intelligence-based order optimization recommendationengine generating processor-readable, non-transient medium, the mediumstoring a component collection, the component collection storagestructured with processor-executable instructions comprising: obtain,via the at least one processor, a machine learning (ML) training requestdatastructure, in which the ML training request datastructure isstructured to specify a set of agent profile datastructures and an agentsample ranking function, in which an agent profile datastructure isstructured to specify an agent's episodic holdings, trades and cashflowdata at a bucket level for a training period; determine, via the atleast one processor, an agent samples range, in which the agent samplesrange is structured as a set of subsequences of agents' episodicholdings, trades and cashflow data; generate, via the at least oneprocessor, a set of inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) training sampledatastructures, in which an IRL training sample datastructure isstructured to specify a pairwise comparison of rankings of a pair ofagents during a subsequence in the set of subsequences as determinedusing the agent sample ranking function; determine, via the at least oneprocessor, a reward function structure to use for inverse reinforcementlearning; determine, via the at least one processor, an optimal rewardfunction having the determined reward function structure using an IRLtechnique on the set of IRL training sample datastructures, in which theoptimal reward function is structured to have parameters that keeppairwise agent ranking orders specified in the set of IRL trainingsample datastructures; determine, via the at least one processor, anoptimal policy using a reinforcement learning (RL) technique and theoptimal reward function, in which the optimal policy provides tradingrecommendations based on current holdings and an order constraint value;and store, via the at least one processor, an optimal policydatastructure, in which the optimal policy datastructure is structuredto specify a set of parameters that define the structure of the optimalpolicy.
 17. An artificial intelligence-based order optimizationrecommendation engine generating processor-implemented system,comprising: means to store a component collection; means to processprocessor-executable instructions from the component collection, thecomponent collection storage structured with processor-executableinstructions including: obtain, via the at least one processor, amachine learning (ML) training request datastructure, in which the MLtraining request datastructure is structured to specify a set of agentprofile datastructures and an agent sample ranking function, in which anagent profile datastructure is structured to specify an agent's episodicholdings, trades and cashflow data at a bucket level for a trainingperiod; determine, via the at least one processor, an agent samplesrange, in which the agent samples range is structured as a set ofsubsequences of agents' episodic holdings, trades and cashflow data;generate, via the at least one processor, a set of inverse reinforcementlearning (IRL) training sample datastructures, in which an IRL trainingsample datastructure is structured to specify a pairwise comparison ofrankings of a pair of agents during a subsequence in the set ofsubsequences as determined using the agent sample ranking function;determine, via the at least one processor, a reward function structureto use for inverse reinforcement learning; determine, via the at leastone processor, an optimal reward function having the determined rewardfunction structure using an IRL technique on the set of IRL trainingsample datastructures, in which the optimal reward function isstructured to have parameters that keep pairwise agent ranking ordersspecified in the set of IRL training sample datastructures; determine,via the at least one processor, an optimal policy using a reinforcementlearning (RL) technique and the optimal reward function, in which theoptimal policy provides trading recommendations based on currentholdings and an order constraint value; and store, via the at least oneprocessor, an optimal policy datastructure, in which the optimal policydatastructure is structured to specify a set of parameters that definethe structure of the optimal policy.
 18. An artificialintelligence-based order optimization recommendation engine generatingprocessor-implemented process, including processing processor-executableinstructions via at least one processor from a component collectionstored in at least one memory, the component collection storagestructured with processor-executable instructions comprising: obtain,via the at least one processor, a machine learning (ML) training requestdatastructure, in which the ML training request datastructure isstructured to specify a set of agent profile datastructures and an agentsample ranking function, in which an agent profile datastructure isstructured to specify an agent's episodic holdings, trades and cashflowdata at a bucket level for a training period; determine, via the atleast one processor, an agent samples range, in which the agent samplesrange is structured as a set of subsequences of agents' episodicholdings, trades and cashflow data; generate, via the at least oneprocessor, a set of inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) training sampledatastructures, in which an IRL training sample datastructure isstructured to specify a pairwise comparison of rankings of a pair ofagents during a subsequence in the set of subsequences as determinedusing the agent sample ranking function; determine, via the at least oneprocessor, a reward function structure to use for inverse reinforcementlearning; determine, via the at least one processor, an optimal rewardfunction having the determined reward function structure using an IRLtechnique on the set of IRL training sample datastructures, in which theoptimal reward function is structured to have parameters that keeppairwise agent ranking orders specified in the set of IRL trainingsample datastructures; determine, via the at least one processor, anoptimal policy using a reinforcement learning (RL) technique and theoptimal reward function, in which the optimal policy provides tradingrecommendations based on current holdings and an order constraint value;and store, via the at least one processor, an optimal policydatastructure, in which the optimal policy datastructure is structuredto specify a set of parameters that define the structure of the optimalpolicy.